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Tango0128 Apr 2017 1:16 p.m. PST

… Light-Years Away.

"By combining data from space- and ground-based telescopes, the astronomers determined that the newfound world is about 1.4 times the Earth's mass.

Called OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, the planet orbits an ultracool dwarf at only 1.16 times the Earth-Sun distance.

The host, just 7.8% the mass of our Sun, is either a brown dwarf or a very low-mass star.

According to the team, OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb is extremely cold, likely even colder than Pluto is in the Solar System…"

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