Researchers Find Exciting Potential for Little-Known Exoplanet -- and Discover Another Planet (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

Researchers Find Exciting Potential for Little-Known Exoplanet -- and Discover Another Planet

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K2-18b and its neighbour, newly discovered K2-18c, orbit the red-dwarf star k2-18 locataed 111 light years away in the constellation Leo.

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Alex Boersma

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