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50 New Exoplanets Found, Billions More Await

Posted by Soulskill on from the billions-and-billions dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers using a sensitive spectrograph have just announced the existence of 50 more planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars. The important things to note: 1) Sixteen of them are super-Earths, and 2) 40% of all Sun-like stars appear to have at least one planet with less mass than Saturn."

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  1. Re:Threat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    None. And keep that kind of stuff in Yahoo comments where it belongs.