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Planet 5-7 times size of Earth found in the nearest star system?
Planet 5-7 times size of Earth found in the nearest star system?
Chethan Kumar | TNN | Feb 11, 2021, 22:30 IST
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Astronomers from Breakthrough Watch, the global astronomical programme looking for Earth-like planets around nearby stars say there’s an “intriguing possibility” of them having observed a planet roughly five to seven times the size of Earth orbiting within the habitable zone of the nearest sun-like star, just 4.37 light years away.
Breakthrough Watch which has now announced a new observing technique with unprecedented sensitivity to directly image exoplanets says initial observations also resulted in the detection of a weak signal in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A, part of the star system nearest to Earth. ....

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