• Question: Would you like to discover a planet that is just like earth but bigger?

    Asked by anon-253380 to AJ on 2 Jul 2020.
    • Photo: Arjuna James

      Arjuna James answered on 2 Jul 2020:

      I would love to discover a planet, especially one just like Earth but bigger. Planets a bit bigger than Earth have been discovered before, and planet hunters keep finding more and more of these so they’ve created a new class of planet called a ‘super Earth’. We don’t know if any of these super Earths is like our Earth on the surface though, but one day we should be able to find out. Unfortunately for me my work is only focused on the planets in the solar system so I probably won’t be the one that does find out.

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