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"Young" exoplanet may end up a super-Earth

Rob Beschizza
Nov 26, 2024
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC)

The latest of some 5,780 exoplanets so far discovered outside our own solar system is described as a "young" planet that may develop into a super-Earth: a world compositionally similar to our own but much larger."Astronomers got lucky," writes Mark Kaufman.

Most exoplanets today are discovered by …

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