Thursday, December 17, 2015

Only 77,704,704,000,000 Miles Away

Science Daily: Nearby star hosts closest alien planet in the 'habitable zone'
summary - Australian astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light years away. The planet, more than four times the mass of the Earth, is one of three that the team detected around a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061.

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