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Exoplanet Gliese 667 Cc

by

Ron Miller/Novapix

Reference

a-exo99-30103

Date

2017-01-06

The super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc is a 6 Earth-mass exoplanet which circulates around its low-mass host star Gliese 667 C at a distance equal to only 1/20th of the Earth-Sun distance.