CAROT 7B

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This volcanic inferno was the first rocky planet conforned to be orbiting another star outside of our solar system known as a super earth, it orbits a star 480 light years away and weighs about 5x the mass of the earth. It is 23x closer to its star than mercury is to our sun bringing its surface temperature up to a helish 4000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,200 degrees Celsius)

The same side is always facing the star and the other side is always in shadows, where temperature can drop to minus 350 f (minus 2'0 c). This rocky planet may be the left over core of a former gas giant whose atmosphere evaporated a long time ago. If so, it would be the first kind of this type of planet.