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"Astronomers have announced a haul of planets found beyond our Solar System.
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"From [our] results, we know now that at least 40% of solar-type stars have low-mass planets. This is really important because it means that low-mass planets are everywhere, basically," explained Stephane Udry from Geneva University, Switzerland.
"What's very interesting is that models are predicting them, and we are finding them; and furthermore the models are predicting even more lower-mass planets like the Earth."
The discovery now takes the number of known exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System - to more than 400.
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"Astronomers have announced a haul of planets found beyond our Solar System.
...
"From [our] results, we know now that at least 40% of solar-type stars have low-mass planets. This is really important because it means that low-mass planets are everywhere, basically," explained Stephane Udry from Geneva University, Switzerland.
"What's very interesting is that models are predicting them, and we are finding them; and furthermore the models are predicting even more lower-mass planets like the Earth."
The discovery now takes the number of known exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System - to more than 400.
LINK
Are we alone?
...