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Researchers announced today that they’ve discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star system Alpha Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor. They found the planet, which is barely bigger than Earth, by analyzing slight fluctuations in the movement of the star system using telescopes at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The analysis will be published tomorrow, Oct. 17, in the journal Nature.
The planet gives a little tug to the star it’s orbiting, which the researchers can see even though it’s tiny.
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