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Cheops explores mysterious warm mini-Neptunes

Cheops explores mysterious warm mini-Neptunes

by Daniela Sicilia | Jun 9, 2023 | Cheops, Exoplanets and Astrobiology, paper, Projects, RSN2

ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops confirmed the existence of four warm exoplanets orbiting four stars in our Milky Way. These exoplanets have sizes between Earth and Neptune and orbit their stars closer than Mercury our Sun. These so-called mini-Neptunes are unlike any...
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