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News | 06.21.2012

Proximity of new planets stuns even astronomers

One is a rocky planet 1.5 times the size of Earth. The other is a gaseous world nearly four times Earth’s size. Together they form a spectacular system in which two planets orbit closer to each other than any yet discovered...

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Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (left) Michael Marsland (Yale University); (background) NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)

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