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I like to watch a lot of recently-made space documentaries, and the other night I watched one that talked about one of the first "terrestrial" exoplanets found; a rocky world just a little over one-and-a-half times the diameter of Earth. This planet however...is NO "Earth 2.0". It may be called a "Super Earth," but this planet orbits so close to its parent star (a G-type, Sun-like star) that one year is only 20 hours, and it is also therefore tidally locked, meaning one side of the fire-roasted planet always faces the star, making that entire hemisphere one enormous ocean of molten lava. If anything, it should be called a "Super Venus" or a "Super Mercury," not a "Super Earth."

Also it's been a while since I made a "space drawing," and I was in the mood to post one.

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I like to watch a lot of recently-made space documentaries, and the other night I watched one that talked about one of the first "terrestrial" exoplanets found; a rocky world just a little over one-and-a-half times the diameter of Earth. This planet however...is NO "Earth 2.0". It may be called a "Super Earth," but this planet orbits so close to its parent star (a G-type, Sun-like star) that one year is only 20 hours, and it is also therefore tidally locked, meaning one side of the fire-roasted planet always faces the star, making that entire hemisphere one enormous ocean of molten lava. If anything, it should be called a "Super Venus" or a "Super Mercury," not a "Super Earth."

Also it's been a while since I made a "space drawing," and I was in the mood to post one.