Two super-Earth-sized planets discovered orbiting a nearby star

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 08:21 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—NASA's Kepler spacecraft continues its fruitful exoplanet hunt with the newest discovery of two super-Earth-sized alien worlds. The newly detected planets are orbiting a nearby sun-sized star known as HD 3167, located some 150 light years away. The results are presented in a paper published July 18 on the arXiv pre-print server.

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