New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

“Microlensing” lets us find planets at much greater distances from their star.

New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths - WorldNL Magazine

"Microlensing" lets us find planets at much greater distances from their star. What does the "typical" exosolar system look like? We know it's not likely to look like our own Solar System, given that our familiar planets don't include entire classes of planets (Hot Jupiters! Mini-Neptunes!) that we've found elsewhere. And our discovery methods have been heavily biased toward planets that orbit close to their host star, so we don't really have a …