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Potential life bearing planet found 20.5ly away

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:39 AM EDT
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The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic terms is relatively nearby at 120 trillion miles away. But the star it closely orbits, known as a "red dwarf," is much smaller, dimmer and cooler than our sun.

Will we then make an effort to further study this new source of potential life?

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