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News Release 10-172 - Video

Steven Vogt and Paul Butler lead a team that discovered the first potentially habitable exoplanet.

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Steven Vogt of UC Santa Cruz and UC Observatories and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington join NSF's Lisa-Joy Zgorski to announce the discovery of the first exoplanet that has the potential to support life.

Credit: National Science Foundation

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