Kepler space telescope finds first ‘mega-Earth’
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Kepler-10c, shown in the foreground of this artist's illustration, is too rocky to be a gas giant and too big to be a super-Earth, so astronomers have dubbed it a mega-Earth.
David A. Aguilar/CfA
Kepler-10c, shown in the foreground of this artist's illustration, is too rocky to be a gas giant and too big to be a super-Earth, so astronomers have dubbed it a mega-Earth.
David A. Aguilar/CfA