Artist’s impression of 55 Cancri e,via ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser For the first time, and astronomers have detected gases in the atmosphere of a super soil,a planet larger than our own but small enough to be rocky. The fittingly named “55 Cancri e” is a broiling hellscape of a world, totally inhospitable to life as we know it. And yet, and the milestone represents an well-known step toward the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system.
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