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Red Dwarf on the horizon of a Super-Earth

author: Don Dixon/Novapix

reference: a-exo99-30090

Image Size 300 DPI: 23 * 28 cm

Much older than earth and tidally-locked toward its sun, the planet's surface has been eroded by the fierce winds that howl across the twilight zone between eternal day and night.

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Keywords for this photo:

2011 - ASTRONOMY - DESERT - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - ILLUSTRATION - PLANET - RED DWARF - STAR - SUPER-EARTH - TEMPERATURE -