It's unlikely any aliens call Kepler-37b home: it's thought to be rocky, with no atmosphere, and hugs its sun in a 13-day orbit cycle, meaning surface temperature is terribly high.

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The 60-year cycle is particularly easy to observe in significant surface temperature maxima that occurred in 1880-1881, 1940-1941, and 2000-2001.

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And they reckon that, overall, the surface of the sea becomes two or three times warmer at the high point of the cycle than mere solar heating can account for.

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The data, from NASA's TIMED mission, show that Earth's thermosphere (the layer above 62 miles or 100 km above the Earth's surface) "responds quite dramatically to the effects of the 11-year solar cycle, " Stan Solomon of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

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During a short cycle the solar wind (a breeze of electrically charged gas blowing off the sun's surface) is stronger than normal.

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