An astronomer made a super-Earth between Mars and Jupiter that could end life on our planet

Except from Pluto's dramatic downgrading to the status of a minor planet in 2006, the solar system that we all learned about in school is rather simple in terms of the planets and

But there are many aspects of the solar system and the planets' formation that we still don't fully comprehend.

In an experiment, researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) went above and beyond to learn more about the origins of our family of planets.

The created planet project sought to fill in two significant knowledge gaps in planetary science.

First, the diameters of the planets differ significantly. The gas giant planets in the solar system are extraordinarily big.

The rocky, terrestrial planets like Earth are among the minor planets and gas giants.

Earth is the largest planet in our solar system. The smallest gas giant is Neptune. Neptune, meanwhile, is a startling 17 times heavier and four times broader than Earth.

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