
55 Cancri e - Science@NASA
Oct 24, 2024 · 55 Cancri e is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 7.99 Earths, it takes 0.7 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.01544 AU from its star. Its …
55 Cancri - Wikipedia
55 Cancri is a binary star system located 41 [1] light-years away from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It has the Bayer designation Rho 1 Cancri (ρ 1 Cancri); 55 Cancri is …
55 Cancri e - Wikipedia
55 Cancri e (abbreviated 55 Cnc e, also known as Janssen / ˈ dʒ æ n s ən /) is an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like host star, 55 Cancri A. The mass of the exoplanet is about eight Earth …
NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky …
May 8, 2024 · Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. …
Geology from 50 Light-Years: Webb Gets Ready to Study Rocky …
May 26, 2022 · Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with a diameter almost twice that of …
55 Cancri e: Super-Hot Super-Earth | Space
Jul 28, 2017 · 55 Cancri e is a super-Earth — about twice our planet's size — that zooms around its star in 18 days. It has a surface temperature of nearly 4,900 degrees Fahrenheit (2,700 …
Did Webb Detect an Atmosphere on Hot Super-Earth 55 Cancri e?
Jan 11, 2024 · New Webb data suggests that the hot super-Earth 55 Cancri e has an atmosphere, perhaps maintained by the planet’s magma ocean. One artist's illustration of 55 Cancri e …
James Webb telescope detects 1-of-a-kind atmosphere ... - Live Science
May 12, 2024 · 55 Cancri e is a fiery world. Classified as a rocky "super-Earth", this exoplanet is twice the diameter of Earth, and orbits its star at a mere 4% of the distance between Mercury …
This diamond exoplanet lost its atmosphere — then it grew another
May 8, 2024 · 55 Cancri e is a super-Earth planet that appears composed of diamond-like carbon — now, thanks to the JWST, astronomers have found the world has "grown" a second …
55 Cancri - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
55 Cancri is a mid-sixth magnitude star (magnitude 5.95) class G (G8) dwarf 41 light years away. A bit cooler (5280 Kelvin) and carrying just under a solar mass, it shines at just 58 percent of …