Discovery Alert: 'Super-Earth' in Habitable Zone

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On the right lower foreground, this illustration shows a 'super-Earth' - a planet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune - with a brownish atmosphere flecked with white, horizontal strips of cloud. The planet's left side is partially lit by its reddish parent star, a red dwarf, smaller and cooler than our Sun, seen in the upper left of the image.

This illustration shows one way that planet TOI-715 b, a super-Earth in the habitable zone around its star, might appear to a nearby observer.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

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