Sixteen super-Earths among fifty new exoplanets discovered by HARPS
Artist's impression of the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b - one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS (Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has announced its exoplanet-hunting HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) has discovered 50 new exoplanets, making it the largest amount of exoplanets that has been announced at the one time. Bringing the number of planets discovered outside our solar system to 645, the 50-planet haul includes 16 super-Earths (planets with a mass between one and ten times that of Earth), including one that orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star.
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