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An artist’s concept of the planet HD 189733 b located 64 light-years from Earth. | Photo Credit: Reuters The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputation as a rather extreme place, a scorching hot gas giant a bit larger than Jupiter that is a striking cobalt blue colour and has…
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An artist’s concept shows the exoplanet 55 Cancri e, also called Janssen, a so-called super-Earth, a rocky planet significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, along with the star it orbits in this undated illustration released by NASA. | Photo Credit: Reuters Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system…
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