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WASHINGTON: NASA’s plant-hunting spacecraft launched last year discovered an Earth-sized planet and a warm sub-Neptune-sized one in a nearby star system. The study published on Monday in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters reported the Earth-sized planet called HD 21749c that takes eight days to orbit its host star. The host star of those two planets has about 80 percent …

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