The International Astronomical Union has launched a competition to name not one but 20 of these distant systems, each of which contains a star and an orbiting exoplanet.
Think you can do better? First you'll need to cobble together a team to enter the competition with.
How a Neptune-sized planet will be destroyed by a star, NASA explains
Shockingly, the NASA report suggests that this Neptune-sized planet around a bright A-type star, would be rapidly stripped of its gas due to the harsh stellar radiation and would be condensed to an undetectable core.
"It's one of the smallest planets that we know of around these really massive stars. In fact, this is the hottest star we know of with a planet smaller than Jupiter.
Asteroid impacts might have created some of Mars' sand | Science News
As much as a quarter of Martian sand is composed of spherical bits of glass forged in the intense heat of impacts, a new study shows.
Using data collected by spacecraft orbiting Mars, Horgan and collaborators looked at different wavelengths of visible and infrared light reflected from the planet's surface to determine the minerals present in Martian sand.
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