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TESS has Found A Second Earth-Sized World in This System. Exoplanet Science is Maturing


, finding an Earth-sized exoplanet must be special. NASA estimates there are about 100 billion planets in the Milky Way, but the large majority of the 5,000+ exoplanets we've found are extremely inhospitable.

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