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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope sheds light on Moon-like exoplanet
2019-08-21 00:29 UTC by David Szondy

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provided new insights into a rocky exoplanet that may be very similar to the planet Mercury or Earth's Moon. Orbiting an M-type dwarf star 48.6 light years from Earth in the constellation of Indus, LHS 3844b is 1.3 times the mass of our planet, probably airless, and covered with lava plains resembling the lunar maria.

• Exoplanet
• NASA
• Spitzer

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