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Types of Exoplanets

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Lava Planets

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Terrestrial or Super-Earth exoplanets that orbit extremely close to their stars causing surface temperatures high enough to melt rock, forming lava oceans. An example is 55 Cancri e.

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Mini-Neptunes

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Smaller than Neptune but larger than Earth, these exoplanets are likely to have thick hydrogen-helium atmospheres and rocky cores. Examples include Kepler-11f and K2-18b.

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Rogue Planets

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Planets that do not orbit a star, having being ejected from their original planetary systems or formed in isolation. Examples are difficult to confirm, but PSO J318.5−22 is a candidate.

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Ice Giants

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Planets with a core and a thick mantle made of ices, like water, ammonia, and methane, surrounded by an atmosphere. Examples include Uranus and Neptune in our solar system, but no exoplanet examples are conclusively identified.

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Super-Earth

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Planets with a mass larger than Earth's but smaller than that of Uranus or Neptune. Known for their potential to have solid surfaces or thick atmospheres. Examples include Gliese 1214 b and HD 85512 b.

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Hot Jupiters

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A class of exoplanets that are similar in characteristics to Jupiter but orbit very close to their stars, resulting in very high surface temperatures. Examples include 51 Pegasi b and HD 189733 b.

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Circumbinary Planets

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Planets that orbit around two stars instead of one, reminiscent of Tatooine in 'Star Wars'. Examples include Kepler-16b and Kepler-47c.

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Terrestrial

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Rocky surface, similar in composition to Earth, often found in the inner part of planetary systems. Examples include Kepler-10b and LHS 3844b.

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Gas Giant

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Large planets with deep gaseous atmospheres, lacking a well-defined solid surface. Examples include Jupiter-like exoplanets such as HD 209458 b, also known as Osiris.

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Neptune-like

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Planets similar in composition to Neptune, with thick gas envelopes and possibly icy cores. Examples include GJ 436 b and HAT-P-11b.

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