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Discovery of seven Earth-sized planets: so what’s all the buzz about?

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NASA has announced a new discovery of seven earth-sized planets in a nearby solar system stirring excitement among scientists.


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NASA has announced a new discovery of seven earth-sized planets in a nearby solar system stirring excitement among scientists.


The United States space agency NASA has discovered seven new earth-sized planets orbiting around a sun about 40 light years away from the Earth.

 

Three of them are positioned in the habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks Zone, raising hopes of finding life outside our planet.

 

So what exactly has been discovered and what does that mean?

 

This is how Dr. Hansik Kim, an astronomer, explains.

 


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