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SFSU professor leads discovery of a new planet
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An international consortium of planet hunters led by a San
Francisco State University astronomy professor has discovered a new
planet where a year passes in less than three days and whose
atmosphere is so hot a human would melt into a puddle of goo.
But what scientists like most about planet HD 149026b is its solid
core, which modeling of the planet has shown is about 70 times the
Earth's mass. It's the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar
planet -- one that's outside our so...
