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A New Venus-Sized World Found in the Habitable Zone of its Star


The parade of interesting new exoplanets continues. Today, NASA issued a press release announcing the discovery of a new exoplanet in the Gliese 12 system, sized somewhere between Earth and Venus and inside the host star's habitable zone.

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