<p>Most Earthlike Exoplanet Started out as Gas Giant
</p><p>This artist's impression shows sunrise over CoRoT-7b, the smallest-known exoplanet. The world is about 70 percent larger than Earth. Now, a team led by Brian Jackson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center finds that the planet may be the rocky remains of a gas giant planet whose atmosphere was evaporated by close proximity to the star.  (Goddard Release No. 10-03)  01/06/2010
</p><p>Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
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