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Nearby Warm Neptune Has Sulfurous Atmosphere, Astronomers Say


A warm-Neptune exoplanet called GJ 3470b (Gliese 3470b) is 96 light-years away and circles a 2-billion-year-old red dwarf star in the general direction of the constellation Cancer.

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