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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Hellish Exoplanet Rains Hot Pebbles, Has Lava Oceans


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COROT 7-B (pictured in an artist's rendering) is the first rocky planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

The exoplanet may have a hellish environment where hot pebbles rain down on oceans of lava, according to a new computer model in an October 2009 study.

Illustration courtesy European Southern Observatory