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  1. Found: Earth-Like Planet

    NAI Feature Stories
    April 30, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe

    A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star’s “habitable zone,” where life could exist, possibly in oceans of water.

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