Scientists model a cornucopia of Earth-sized planets

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This is an artists concept of an Earth-like planet around another star. Credit: NASA JPL
This is an artist's concept of an Earth-like planet around another star. Credit: NASA JPL

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider range of Earth-size planets that astronomers might actually be able to find in the near future.


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