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An artist's impression of the surface of a newly discovered super-Earth

Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star

14 November 2018

After years of searching, a planet several times larger than Earth has been discovered orbiting Barnard’s star – the closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system

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