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The planet orbits a star about half as big as our Sun, positioned some 9, 000 light-years away.
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The planet orbits its host star, or brown dwarf, with an orbital radius similar to that of Venus.
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Lying only 10 light years away in the equatorial constellation of Eridanus, it was already known to harbor at least one extra-solar Jupiter-like planet, which orbits the star roughly every 7 years.
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In a flash of intuition, he had it: the new stars near Jupiter were actually moons, orbiting the planet as our moon orbits us.
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In contrast, the third Earth-like planet, Kepler 69c, orbits a star very similar to our sun (that is, hotter than Kepler 62).
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The results suggest that 17% of stars host a planet up to 1.25 times the size of the Earth, in close orbits lasting just 85 days or fewer - much like the planet Mercury.
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The planet, 200 million light years away, orbits two stars rather than one and so enjoys a double sunset.
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The results could help scientists better understand the swelling and shrinking of our planet's atmosphere, a phenomenon that affects the orbits of satellites and space junk.
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They say they have strong evidence for another planet in the same system that has about eight times the mass of the Earth and orbits every 84 days.
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