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May 10, 2023 · It’s the closest look yet at the mysterious world, a “mini-Neptune” that was largely impenetrable to previous observations. And while the planet, called GJ 1214 b, is too hot to harbor liquid-water oceans, water in vaporized form still could be a major part of its atmosphere.
Feb 21, 2012 · GJ1214b is located in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, and just 40 light-years from Earth. Therefore, it’s a prime candidate for study by the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope.
Apr 22, 2024 · The current Japanese research team of astronomers and planetary scientists focused their efforts on investigating the atmospheric features of one super-Earth, GJ 1214 b, which is located 40 light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, northwest of the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
GJ 1214 b is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 8.41 Earths, it takes 1.6 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.01505 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2009.
May 10, 2023 · The exoplanet GJ 1214b has a radius of 2.6 R⊕ and orbits its late M dwarf host star with a period of 37.9 h (ref. 15 ). We observed the phase curve of GJ 1214b using the James Webb Space ...
Sep 4, 2013 · To learn more about Super-Earths’ similarities to planets in our solar system, astronomers focused on investigating the atmospheric features GJ 1214 b, which is located 40 light-years from Earth...
Feb 21, 2012 · Observations suggest that its atmosphere is mostly water. David A. Aguilar / CfA. One exoplanet that's attracted a lot of attention since its discovery in 2009 is GJ 1214b. It circles a dim red dwarf that's just 40 light-years away in Ophiuchus, which makes this a fairly easy system to study.
