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14-billion-years-later: A Planet Full of WaterBut psyche! The water only exists either as steam or as ice, while this may come as a contradiction of sorts, the extremely high pressure on this planet causes the water to exist in a solid form. The planet named GJ1214b has a diameter nearly 3 times as great as Earth and weighs 7 times as much. The planet is also 40 LY from our sun. The measurements from the planet are calculated by the effect light has in the planet’s atmosphere.Image

14-billion-years-later:

A Planet Full of Water

But psyche! The water only exists either as steam or as ice, while this may come as a contradiction of sorts, the extremely high pressure on this planet causes the water to exist in a solid form. The planet named GJ1214b has a diameter nearly 3 times as great as Earth and weighs 7 times as much. The planet is also 40 LY from our sun. The measurements from the planet are calculated by the effect light has in the planet’s atmosphere.

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    I might be wrong, but wouldn’t only the upper layer be steam, and the very bottom layer be ice-7, with liquid water in...
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    time before we figured that one out.