inner planet

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The exoplanets are huge: the inner planet is 14 times as massive as Jupiter and the outer one is 6 times as massive.

From Nature

But get around these and the view, at least, might be pleasing to the eye: wispy clouds, a giant red sun, and an inner planet that rises like Venus.

From The Guardian

How a small inner planet stays on that path as a bigger planet lurches on an elliptical orbit around the same star is a mystery.

From Scientific American

How the small inner planet could stay on that path as a bigger planet lurches on an elliptical orbit around the same star is a mystery.

From Nature

“The outer planet TRAPPIST-1c first starts to transit, then 12 minutes later the inner planet, TRAPPIST-1b, begins to block out the star’s light as well,” says Hannah Wakeford of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, co-author of a study reporting the results in Nature.

From National Geographic