Sounds like a useless rock.
I’m sure it’s already been featured in an episode of Star Trek, Twilight Zone, or Lost In Space. What’s the big deal?
The thing that bothers me about all the effort going into finding exoplanets is that we could guess they were there but we can’t go there or send probes, so why not wait until we have warp drive and can make use of the info?
“Planets this heavy are always gas giants.”
So is my brother-in-law.
God continues to mock science. Good for Him.
Other than that, it is always fantastic reading about discoveries that shouldn’t exist. It stands science on its head and challenges conventional wisdom.
I like how the scientists are so convinced that massive planets can only be gas giants, that this new rocky planet “must” be the remnant of a gas giant. NO IT DOESN’T. We don’t know. We likelly will never know. Who knows how good their theories of planet formation are? The odds are, they are completely wrong. I am not knocking the scientists, just noting how little we truly know about the universe, even though we know more than any people ever have.
God must have had a great time creating all this.
A mixture of metals, silicates, water, and possibly a (very) small atmosphere and sweltering 2800°F. How can it have water if it’s 2800°F? Maybe water vapor.
Something in that standard process went wrong.
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See, we’ve been finding planets for over a decade and have already deduced the “standard process”, aren’t we just the little geniuses!
It would not surprise me if some stars have a certain composition such that when their burning sun phase ends they leave a core that goes on to become a planet around some other star, and that some “gas giants” are also, strangely, a former sun that went into a massive “cooling” phase as it’s sun phase was ending.