After its most memorable full schedule year of activity, cosmologists are utilizing the test to search for life on a huge number of newfound planets
Robin McKie
Robin McKie Science Manager
Sat 23 Dec 2023 17.00 GMT
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There is a far off reality where quartz gems float over a singing hot, puffy climate. Disintegrated sand grains, not water drops, structure the mists that fill the sky on Wasp-107b, a planet 1,300 light a very long time from Earth.

Then there is GJ1214, the sauna planet. With a mass multiple times that of Earth, it circles parent star a ways off is one-70th of the hole among Earth and the sun and is by all accounts covered in a thick air holding back immense measures of steam.

Or on the other hand there are the goliath, Jupiter-sized planets of the Orion Cloud which have been found free-drifting in space, rebel universes that seem, by all accounts, to be detached to any parent star - to the confusion of cosmologists.