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Nearby super-Earth GJ 3378b may be a good candidate for life

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Nearby super-Earth GJ 3378b may be a good candidate for life
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View larger. | Artist’s concept of the nearby super-Earth planet GJ 3378b. It’s about twice the size of Earth and receives a similar amount of light from its star as Earth does. Could it be habitable? Image via Nikolai Berman/ UC Irvine.

GJ 3378b is a super-Earth exoplanet about 25 light-years away. It is about twice the size of Earth.
The planet is in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star, where liquid water could exist. But does it have an atmosphere?
We don’t know yet if

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