Wednesday, September 23, 2009

A new found planet : First rocky extrasolarplanet

The mass of this new planet indicates it is not a gas giant but is rocky like our first 4 planets in our solar system. Now the quest is to find a rocky planet farther away from a star similar to Earth.
9/23/2009
(if not this date go to this link/website and then go to archives link which is on the APOD Spaceweather page lower portion)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html