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    Red dwarf’s gas giant conundrum

    Apr 01, 2020 1 minute

    ASTRONOMY

    he GJ 3512 object is around 31 light years from Earth, and astronomers used to think it was a double star system, with two stars orbiting one another. But analyses made by astronomers from the Autonomous University in Spain have revealed something

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