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Webb’s Super-Earth Discovery: Potentially Habitable World Just 48 Light-Years Away


A team of astronomers has made an exciting discovery about the temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b: it could be a promising "super-Earth" covered in ice or water. LHS 1140 b, once thought to be a mini-Neptune, is now considered a possible super-Earth with a nitrogen-rich atmosphere, as suggested by Ja

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