Cambridge, MA - Few nighttime sights offer more drama than the full Moon rising over the horizon. Now imagine that instead of the Moon, a gas giant planet spanning three times more sky loomed over the molten landscape of a lava world. This alien vista exists in the newly discovered two-planet system of Kepler-36.==>> www.cfa.harvard.edu
"These two worlds are having close encounters," said Josh Carter, a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). ...
Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
Planetrise: Alien World Looms Large in its Neighbor's Sky
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