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Tango01 | 28 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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