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Get in, nerds! We're going on a road trip.Scientists have discovered two nearby planets — in the grand scheme of things, at least — that are like Earth but bigger. And one of them, in major SETI news, may be able to sustain life., a Belgian-led team of international scientists announced that they'd found two "Super-Earth" planets, which are larger than Earth but smaller than icy giants like Neptune and Uranus, located a mere 100 light-years away.
Both of these exoplanets, the University of Liège press release notes, are orbiting SPECULOOS-2, a small, cool dwarf star named after the "Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars" telescopes in Chile and Spain that were used to find the low-heat star around which the newly-discovered planets orbit.
One of these new Super-Earths, the unsexily-named LP 890-9b, was found first and is roughly 30 percent larger than our Earth. The other, SPECULOOS-2c, was discovered after researchers pointed their gigantic equipment at the first of the orbiting planets, and at about 40 percent bigger than Earth, it appears habitable, per the consortium's
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