Water+World+Discovered!!

=Gliese 518- '//A New Beginning or A Hoax?!//'=



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After many years of research and findind, at last scientists have discovered a new planet supposedly belived to be covered with water! A planet orbiting a red dwarf star 20 light years away could be the first known water world, entirely covered by a deep ocean. The planet, named Gliese 581, is not a new discovery, but scientists have now revised its orbit inwards, classifing it as a planet which could be habitable. Gliese 581d is about seven times as massive as Earth, so it is much too small to be a gas giant like Jupiter, but probably too big to be a rocky world like our own! Scientists believe the planet is likely to have the interior similar to Neptune or Uranus, which are dominated by ices of water, ammonia and methane. Scientists believe that the ocens could be 1000s of metres deep.

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This planet is contrary to Jupiter-like giant planets that are mainly gaseous, terrestrial planets are expected to be extremely diverse: some areas will be dry and airless, while others will have much more water and gases than the Earth. Only the next generation of telescopes will allow scientists to tell what this new world and its atmospheres are made of and to search for possible indications of life on these planets. However, heoretical investigations are possible today and can be a great help in identifying targets for these future observations



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