super-Earth gap illustration (IMAGE)

Rice University

super-Earth gap illustration

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An illustration depicting the scarcity of exoplanets about 1.8 times the size of Earth that were observed by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft.

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Graphic courtesy of A. Izidoro/Rice University

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