Rocky planet neighbor looks familiar, but is not Earth’s twin
10 Jul 2018, 05:01 UTC
ESO/M. Kornmesser
Last autumn, the world was excited by the discovery of an exoplanet called Ross 128 b, which is just 11 light years away from Earth. New work from a team led by Diogo Souto of Brazil’s Observatório Nacional and including Carnegie’s Johanna Teske has for the first time determined detailed chemical abundances of the planet’s host star, Ross 128.
