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A team that includes a University of Michigan astronomer has identified a temperate exoplanet as a promising super-Earth ice or water world. The planet emerges as one of the most promising habitable zone exoplanet candidates known, potentially harboring an atmosphere and even a liquid water ocean.


A team that includes a University of Michigan astronomer has identified a temperate exoplanet as a promising super-Earth ice or water world.

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