The search for exoplanets is one of the more interesting areas of work going on in astronomy today. The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered over a thousand such worlds and has broadened our understanding of solar systems beyond our own by an unquantifiable factor. In addition to finding more of them than ever, we are also learning interesting things about some of them. Given the state of our telescopes and technology, exoplanets typically have to be fairly large for us to be able to tell much about them. That is why a recent discovery is in this field is of particular interest.
For the first time, an exoplanet smaller than the earth has had it size and mass measured. The sensitivity of the instrumentation needed to even detect such tiny
For the first time, an exoplanet smaller than the earth has had it size and mass measured. The sensitivity of the instrumentation needed to even detect such tiny