Earth-Sized Planets (IMAGE)

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Earth-Sized Planets

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This shows two planets that survived the red-giant expansion of their host star.

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Illustration by Stéphane Charpinet/Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie in Toulouse, France.

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