Artist’s impression of 55 Cancri e (close-up). Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a dry atmosphere without any indications of water vapor. For…
…motivate a paper last year about the innermost planet of the system, the ‘super-Earth’ 55 Cancri e. Using observations of the planet’s mass and radius to create models of its…
…— in this case, a planet some 40 light-years away. And according to their calculations, 55 Cancri e, a planet just over twice the size of Earth, is throwing off…
…55 Cancri e. In a seminar, she heard about 55 Cancri e as a potentially carbon-rich planet, so high in temperature and pressure that its interior could contain a large…
Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with a diameter almost twice that…
This artist’s conception shows the super-Earth 55 Cancri e (right) compared to the Earth (left). Astronomers using a ground-based telescope have measured the transit of 55 Cancri e for the…
…demonstrate it could perform those tasks but went above and beyond, detecting the known exoplanet 55 Cancri e. Scorching hot and about twice the size of Earth, 55 Cancri e…
…ocean, the newest poster shows futuristic explorers gliding over the red-hot landscape in a protective bubble. 55 Cancri e is also now part of the Exoplanet Travel Bureau’s 360-degree visualization tool,…
…whole new field of exploration. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 11. 55 Cancri e 55 Cancri e: 55 Cancri e is a toasty world that rushes around its star every 18 hours. It…
…ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser New ultra-precise measurements reveal the orbital path of exoplanet 55 Cancri e (55 Cnc e), a scorchingly hot super-Earth closely circling a distant star. New research sheds…
This artist’s impression shows the super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e in front of its parent star. 55 Cancri e is about 40 light-years away and orbits a star slightly smaller,…
…Cancri e and WASP-47 e, orbit their star so closely that their surface temperature is almost 3,000 degrees and they would have lost this gas envelope a long time ago….
…Cancri. The analyses revealed the exoplanet 55 Cancri e, a known transiting super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star. The resulting data of the transit search demonstrated that a signal can be…
…systems 55 Cancri, upsilon Andromedae, and tau Boötis using LOFAR beam-formed observations” by J.D. Turner, P. Zarka, J.-M. Griessmeier, J. Lazio, B. Cecconi, J.-E. Enriquez, J.N. Girard, R. Jayawardhana, L….
…its host star. Example target: lava rain on the super-Earth-size exoplanet 55 Cancri e. A sensor array for the NIRCam instrument, designed and tested by Marcia Rieke’s research group at…
…of the most well-known of these mysterious burning worlds is 55 Cancri e, an exoplanet about 41 light-years away that scientists describe as home to both sparkling skies and roiling…
…Kornmesser In 2016 Hubble analyzed for the first time the dry atmosphere of a super-Earth, 40 light-years away. Using Hubble’s data and new analysis techniques, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e…
…Magnificent Seven Further analysis of the state of gaseous and dense materials on specific super-Earths produced a list of seven planets possibly worthy of further study: 55 Cancri e; Kepler…