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Super-Earths around HD 40307
author: ESO/Novapix
reference: a-exo99-30027
Image Size 300 DPI: 50 * 37 cm
Artist's impression of the trio of super-Earths discovered by an European team using the HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla, Chile, after 5 years of monitoring. The three planets, having 4.2, 6.7, and 9.4 times the mass of the Earth, orbit the star HD 40307 with periods of 4.3, 9.6, and 20.4 days, respectively.
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