What do you mean by super-earth? And are there actually lives on such exoplanets, possibly even in a sophisticated form? "Krone-science expert Dr. Christian Mähr provides enlightenment.
What do you mean by super-earth? And are there actually lives on such exoplanets, possibly even in a sophisticated form? "Krone-science expert Dr. Christian Mähr provides enlightenment.
A team led by Oxford University confirmed, in June 2026, in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, two giant worlds as wide as Jupiter but dozens of times less dense, at 1,110 light-years from the Earth. Such objects, so stretched that they defy planet formation models, remained so far almost unobtainable. These super-inflated planets (super-puffs in English) display a density lower than that of the beard to papa, a lightness tha…