Astronomers have just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an ‘ultracool dwarf’ star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our Sun, and located 55 light-years from Earth. After the famous TRAPPIST-1, SPECULOOS 3 is the second planetary system discovered around this type of star.
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