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Astronomers have found a 'super-Earth', bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, in a place where only planets thousands or hundreds of times more massive than Earth were found before


The same international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has also announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star farther out than Saturn is to the Sun.These results are another example of how planetary systems can be different from our Solar System.

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