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Three "Super-Earths" Planets Discovered »

Posted by: ngureco 2 months, 1 week ago

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After five years of monitoring, astronomers in Europe have discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well. Their findings, presented at a conference in France, suggest that Earth-like planets may be very common. It's as if every single star harbor planets but the c