Newborn exoplanets can have a tough life. They may form an atmosphere, but that atmosphere can be doomed. Their stars can emit intense X-ray and UV radiation, stripping away those atmospheres and laying their surfaces bare. A team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics looked at a family of four newborn sibling planets, …



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