K2-18b (IMAGE)

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K2-18b

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An artistic impression of one of the exoplanets in the study, K2-18b. The image shows the planet, its host star, and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is now the only gas dwarf exoplanet known to host both water and temperatures that could support life.

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ESA / Hubble, M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0

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