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Astronomers Find “Super-Earths”

Posted by admin on June 16th, 2008 under Science Tags:  •  No Comments

European researchers have announced that they have discovered three massive Earth-like planets in a nearby solar system, as well as two other solar systems with smaller planets.  They presented their findings at a conference in France and suggested that Earth-like planets may be very common.
The three massive “Earths” orbit a star which is slightly smaller [...]