#Could mini-Neptunes be irradiated ocean planets?
“#Could mini-Neptunes be irradiated ocean planets?” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Many exoplanets known today are ‘super-Earths,’ with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and ‘mini-Neptunes,’ with 2.4 Earth radii. Mini-Neptunes, which are less dense, were long thought to be gas planets, made up of hydrogen and helium. Now, scientists at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de…