Friday, June 22, 2012

Two planets barely a million miles apart

Two planets barely a million miles apart:

Newly-discovered worlds, 1200 ly from Earth, have the closest orbits between two planets ever confirmed—on closest approach, only five times the distance between the Earth and its moon. [JPL. Artist impression: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics]




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