April 3, 2016

Scheme of the brightness variation on the planet 55 Cancri e (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Cambridge)

An article published in the journal “Nature” describes a research that made it possible to map the climate on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e. It’s a planet already well known for the many studies carried out in recent years, in this case the Spitzer Space Telescope was used to try to get a better idea of ​​the existing temperatures on the surface of this super-Earth. They can reach extreme levels, estimated between 1,400 and 2,700 Kelvin.