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Press Room 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Archive All News Public Affairs Office David Aguilar (617) 495-7462 Christine Pulliam (617) 495-7463 pubaffairs@cfa	Press Release Release No.: 2006-14For Release: Monday, March 13, 2006 Super-Earths May Be Three Times More Common Than Jupiters The discovery of a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 9,000 light-years away suggests that such worlds are three times more common than Jupiter-sized planets. The 13-Earth-mass planet (shown in this artist's conception with a hypothetical moon) was detected by a search for microlensing events, in which the gravity of a foreground star distorts the light of a more distant background star. Microlensing is the only way to detect Earth-mass planets from the ground with current technology. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) High Resolution Image (jpg) Low Resolution Image (jpg) Back to Press Release
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