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News Release 13-070

New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets

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diagram showing relative sizes of the five planets as compared to the star

This diagram shows the relative sizes of the five planets as compared to the star. This is a snapshot at a time in the future when all of the planets are close to the star. The black planet is in front of the star; the others are more distant than the star (two are blocked by the star at this point in time). The left two are the two HZ planets.

Credit: Eric Agol, University of Washington


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cover of Science magazine for April 19 2013

Eric Agol is is a co-author of a paper published April 18 in Science Express, the online edition of the journal Science.

Credit: Copyright AAAS


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