• In brief Scientists used the European Space Agency’s Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 challenges current planet formation theories with the unusual order of its planets. • Surprisingly, the most distant outer planet might be rocky and seems to have formed later - in a different environment than the other planets around the star. • In-depth Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches Under Newspapers and My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos. • What sounds like gibberish half-sentences are memory aids taught to children to help remember the order of the planets in our Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. • The eight familiar planets can be sorted into two different types: rocky and gaseous. • The inner planets that are closest to the Sun - Mercury to Mars - are rocky, and the outer planets - Jupiter to Neptune - are gaseous.
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- Cheops discovers late bloomer from another era In brief Scientists used the European Space Agency’s Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 challenges current planet formation theories with the unusual order of its planets. Surprisingly, the most distant outer planet might be rocky and seems to have formed later - in a different environment than the other planets around the star. In-depth Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches Under Newspapers and My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos. What sounds like gibberish half-sentences are memory aids
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