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Newfound super-Earth alien planet whips around its star every 0.67 days
We keep getting reminders that the Milky Way's planetary diversity dwarfs what we see in our own solar system. The newfound exoplanet TOI-1685 b is yet another case in point. Astronomers found it circling a dim red dwarf star about 122 light-years from Earth. "Circling" is too ordinary a world for TOI-1685 b's motion, however; the alien world whips around its parent star once every 0.67 Earth days.
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