Teaching word analysis. As you create your plan for teaching word analysis strategies, think about the tools and methods that can support studentsâ understanding, and provide students with opportunities to practice using these tools and methods.
9. The CoRoT-7b is a strange and mysterious planet outside the solar system, and the first rocky planet discovered orbiting a star other than the Sun. It is believed to have been a giant gas planet initially, like Neptune or Saturn, but due to its proximity to its host, it gradually lost its gas and atmosphere layers.
The exoplanet orbits an orange, type K star, lying roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) A newfound alien planet is one for the record books. The alien planet Kepler-421b â which crosses the face of, or transits, its host star from Earth's perspective â takes 704 Earth days to complete one orbit, and thus has the longest year known for any transiting alien world, researchers said. (For comparison, Earth orbits the sun once every 365 days, and Mars completes a lap every 780 days.)