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CAROLYN COLLINS PETERSEN, and ,Universe Today

Astronomers find a doomed Earth-sized world around a violent star


What if you placed an Earth-sized planet in a close orbit around an M-dwarf star? It’s more than an academic question, since M-dwarfs are the most numerous stars we know. A group of astronomers studying the planet GJ 1252b found an answer, and it’s not pretty.

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