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Physics/Nanosciences/Material science - Earth sciences Astronomers find world with inhospitable atmosphere 17.12 - Astronomers have discovered the second super-Earth exoplanet for which they have determined the mass and radius, giving vital clues about its structure. It is also the first super-Earth where an atmosphere has been found. The exoplanet, orbiting a small star only 40 light-years away from us, open... [more]