Friday, 19 April 2013

Endless oceans cover newly discovered, possibly habitable, planets



Nasa scientists have discovered an alien solar system that they believe has two planets that are completely submerged under water.


The worlds, dubbed super-Earths because they are rocky and larger than our own planet, are orbiting a star called Kepler-62 that lies 1,200 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra.


Both exist in the so-called habitable zone around their home star where water essential for life as we know it can exist as a liquid.


By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/19/exoplanet-waterworlds

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