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Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Ultracool Red Dwarf

Astronomers with the SPECULOOS (Search for Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project have now detected an Earth-sized planet in a 17-hour orbit around the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3.

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