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Newly-discovered super-Earth heats up & freezes every 300 days
short by Udit Gupta / on Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
A newly-discovered 'super-Earth' is orbiting a Sun-like star 20 light-years from Earth. The planet, orbiting in an oval shape, experiences extreme heat for the first part of its year and freezes for the rest of the days, bouncing between extreme climates roughly every 300 days. A planet bigger than Earth but lighter than Neptune and Uranus is classified as 'super-Earth'.
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