Wednesday, March 30, 2016

NASA finds ‘super-Earth’ with an atmosphere

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had found a super-Earth with an atmosphere for the first time.
  • The team includes astrophysicists form the European Space Agency (ESA) and the University College London.
  • It was spotted with the Hubble telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
  • It is a big rocky planet whose surface is 8 times bigger than the Earth’s surface.
  • The observation clearly show that the surface consist of Helium and Hydrogen

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