With data from NASA’s Kepler space mission and ESO’s HARPS and CORALIE spectrographs, a team lead by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher, was able to discover a rare super mercury.
Lean more (in Portuguese only) »
Rare super-mercury discovered
Artist's impression of super-mercury, with a comet-like exosphere of vaporized rock. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
