Zachory Berta say that “ GJ1214b is like no major planet we roll in the hay of . ” Like Berta , part of a team at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics lead by David Charbonneau , his colleagues were surprised when they discovered that this planet is made mostly of water supply .
Larger than Earth but smaller than Uranus , GJ1214b has a hatful more water and a lot less self-coloured material than our dwelling house major planet . According to their enquiry , this waterworld is entirely cover with an ocean . Even its atmosphere is a duncish steam stratum . Not just hazy , but a “ thick atmosphere of water vapor . ”
agree to Berta , what ’s encounter in this raw type of world is something that we ca n’t imagine : “ the high-pitched temperatures and in high spirits pressure would constitute alien materials like ‘ hot Methedrine ’ or ‘ superfluid water , ’ essence that are all alien to our everyday experience . ”
Their theory is that GJ1214b formed “ farther out from its star , where water ice was plentiful ” and then it kept getting close , which start to make all that ice to liquify .
Right now , GJ1214b orbits its violent - dwarf star “ every 38 time of day at a distance of 1.3 million mile . ” This results in a steam temperature of 450 degrees Fahrenheit , which is not good if you are in the Swedish sweat room business . [ Hubble ]
Original title image from Wikicommons / Luciano Mendez
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