Discovered a new type of exoplanet that would consist largely of water: ‘We expect a very thick atmosphere of vapor’
That system consists of 4 planets: Kepler-138b, Kepler-138c, Kepler-138d, and the newly discovered planet Kepler-138e through this research. Principal investigator Caroline Piaulet studied Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d with both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. She discovered that planets may consist mostly of water. It would be, because the water was not detected … Read more