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#98 Exoplanets: The alien worlds that orbit the stars, from Super-Earths and Hot Jupiters to Lava Planets and why they’re so different to the planets in our solar system

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Beyond our Solar System there’s an incredible variety of alien worlds, many unlike anything we see in our own planetary neighbourhood. From rocky Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes to enormous Hot Jupiters, molten lava planets and rogue worlds drifting through space without a star, exoplanets challenge our ideas about what a planet can be. We explore the remarkable diversity of planets orbiting distant stars, how astronomers classify them, and what their characteristics reveal about planetary formation and evolution. Could some of these strange worlds also hold the conditions needed for life? 


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