04-08-2015 06:03 via go.theregister.com

Nearby exoplanets circle naked-eye-visible star

HARPS-N search finds rocky planets just 21 light years away Just a couple of weeks after NASA announced the “Earth twin” (that might not be), astronomers working at the Italian-operated HARPS-N spectrograph have turned up four exoplanets just 21 light-years distant.…
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