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An Earth-sized planet found in the habitable zone of a nearby star

  • Written by Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Research Scientist of Planetary Studies, NASA
An Earth-sized planet found in the habitable zone of a nearby starAn artist's impression of an exoplanet in the habitable zone around a star.Credits: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

A few months ago a group of NASA exoplanet astronomers, who are in the business of discovering planets around other stars, called me into a secret meeting to tell me about a planet that had captured their interest. Because my expertise lies...

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