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New Zealand's Antonio Martin, the paper’s lead author, describes the planet-finding discovery as incredibly rare. 
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In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density.
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The planet known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet Earth, is orbiting a red dwarf star GJ 1132 in the southern constellation Vela, at a distance of 39 light-years from us. 
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51 Pegasi b was the first planet to be discovered orbiting a main-sequence star, the Sun-like 51 Pegasi.
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 Astronomers from University of Washington's virtual planetary laboratory have created a way to compare and rank exoplanets to help prioritise which of the thousands discovered warrant close inspection in the search for life beyond Earth.






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