WATER WONDERFUL WORLD: Hubble Researchers Find Twin Super-Earth Planets With 1,000-Mile-Deep Oceans

Image shows super-Earth Kepler-138 d in the foreground, undated photo. Astronomers from the University of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada, found out that two exoplanets may be mostly water. Note: Licensed content. (NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)/Newsflash) Image shows super-Earth Kepler-138 d in the foreground, undated photo. Astronomers from the University of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada, found out that two exoplanets may be mostly water. Note: Licensed content. (NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)/Newsflash)
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16 December 2022
An international team of researchers using the Hubble telescope has found that two Earth-like planets may be largely made of water and covered in oceans 1,000 miles deep. The planets, called Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d, were first discovered by the now-retired Kepler telescope before being...