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Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology
Cambridge, MA – Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a “super-Earth” orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers … Continue reading
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