New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby cool star
An international team of scientists led by Carnegie's Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. The star is a member of a triple star system and has a different makeup than our Sun, being relatively lacking in metallic elements. This discovery demonstrates that habitable planets could form in a greater vari Source: Carnegie Institution - Discipline: Astronomy...
Source: LabSpaces - Friday, 3 February
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