Just found an interesting article on the BBC science pages about the CHEOPS Telescope being operational.  Looks like there are some really interesting planets out there.   Exciting times ahead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52307087

Great  too that CoronaVIrus isn't going to get in the way of science such as this.

Paul

 

 

 

Nice, Never heard of the CHEOPS telescope. Being a European project is another plus. Love reading about extreme planets, more intresting than the search for extraterrestrial life I think.

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55 Cancri-e...More than eight times as massive as Earth, it takes just 18 hours to circle its parent star. Scientists believe it to have a global ocean of molten rock on its surface.

 

Indeed,   there are lots of interesting planets and moons even in our solar system, to finding more worlds around other planets is great and it shows the wide variety out there is probably beyond what we would have ever thought even a few years ago.  Exciting times.,

 

Paul