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Astronomers with NASA’s Kepler Mission find ‘puzzling pair of planets’

AMES, Iowa – Two planets with very different densities and compositions are locked in surprisingly close orbits around their host star, according to astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler Mission. One ...
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Imagine seeing this in the night sky: The little planet circled by a giant planet four times the size of Earth – at a fifth of the distance of the moon

The new-found system contains two planets circling a sub-giant star, which is much like the Sun except several billion years older. The inner world, Kepler-36b, is a rocky planet 1.5 times the size of ...