The exoplanet, Ross 508b, is billed as Super Earth because of its huge size - four times our planet s mass, and which takes just 10.8 days to complete a year.
Using an infrared instrument on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star located 37 light-years from the solar system.
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