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Orbital view of a Super-Earth

author: Don Dixon/Novapix

reference: a-exo99-30091

Image Size 300 DPI: 23 * 28 cm

A red dwarf star emerges from behind the limb of a planet twice earth's size orbiting in the star's narrow habitable zone. An inner planet transits the sun's disk.

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Keywords for this photo:

2011 - ASTRONOMY - ATMOSPHERE - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE - ILLUSTRATION - PLANET - RED DWARF - STAR - SUPER-EARTH - TRANSIT - WATER -