They were also able to extrapolate whether those super-Earths were likely to be orbiting in the habitable zone around the star.
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They are named super-Earths because they are more massive than the Earth but less massive than Uranus and Neptune (which are about 15 Earth masses).
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Based on their findings, they were able to extrapolate that more of the stars also probably had super-Earths, based on gravitational analyses, though the planets were not definitively detected.
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