GJ 3378b (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

GJ 3378b

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Artist’s conception of the view from the surface of the habitable-zone super-Earth exoplanet GJ 3378b. The planet has a minimum mass just over twice that of Earth and orbits its star at a distance that causes it to receive almost the same amount of starlight as Earth does. The planet joins a growing population of potential hosts for life in the nearby universe.

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Nikolai Berman/UC Irvine.

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