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Finding habitable earth-like planets around other sun-like stars has never been an easy task.
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NASA-funded astronomers have located two planets located within a dense cluster of sun-like stars.
FORBES: Astronomers Find Planets Within A Cluster Of Stars
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Advanced science instruments aboard future spacecraft, such as the proposed European Plato mission, could find many more Earth-mass planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
BBC: Telescope sees smallest exoplanet
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While there are a number of different types of stars in the Cluster, each of the two planets were found orbiting Sun-like stars.
FORBES: Astronomers Find Planets Within A Cluster Of Stars
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And that may be one crucial difference that separates ours from millions of other sun-like stars in this part of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Since the discovery in 1995 of a planet around the star 51 Pegasi by Michel Mayor and his colleague Didier Queloz, more than 270 exoplanets have been found - mostly around Sun-like stars.
BBC: Trio of 'super-Earths' discovered
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One recent study of more than 450 Sun-like stars within about 325 light-years of Earth indicated most had high iron content in their photospheres, or on their surfaces - again, evidence the stars had gorged themselves on planetary material.
BBC: Star 'eats' a planet
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"To our complete surprise, we found several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the 5-hour cut-off found for sun-like stars, something previously thought to be impossible, " the study's lead author Bas Nefs, from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
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This is easily enough to detect Jupiter-like planets around distant stars, and it should also be enough to detect smaller, Uranus-like planets around stars within the sun's stellar neighbourhood.
ECONOMIST: A roadmap for planet-hunting
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It is a reasonable strategy in this cult-of-personality era, when the focus has shifted from technology to stars like Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon.com.
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