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Astrobiology

First Habitable Extrasolar Planet Discovered

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 24, 2007

Astronomers find first habitable Earth-like planet, ESO

“Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50% larger than the Earth and capable of having liquid water. Using the ESO 3.6-m telescope, a team of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists discovered a super-Earth about 5 times the mass of the Earth that orbits a red dwarf, already known to harbour a Neptune-mass planet. The astronomers have also strong evidence for the presence of a third planet with a mass about 8 Earth masses.”

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