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The seven newly discovered planets
orbit a red dwarf star about 39 light
years from Earth.
Mild star. Rocky worlds. Is this...
A cold star and seven small rocky planets. That is the description of a newly-
discovered stellar system, which astronomers consider one of the major
planetary discoveries of the decade. Three Earth-like planets orbit in the star's
habitable zone, and this gives us hope for the possibility of life.
Solar System 2.0?
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
By Rolf Haugaard Nielsen