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A Mini-Neptune in the Habitable Zone in a Binary Star System


, it seems like habitable worlds can pop up almost anywhere in the universe. A recent paper from a team of citizen scientists led by researchers at the Flatiron Institute might have found an excellent candidate to look for one - on a moon orbiting a mini-Neptune orbiting a star that is also orbited by another star.

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