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About the Image
- Date
- 2019-08-19
- ID
- ssc2019-14a
- Type
- Artwork
- Credit
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
About the Object
Dark World
This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star. The planet's surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock, with no apparent atmosphere, according to observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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