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		ericbarrett on Dec 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the near... The planets are very close to their star, too: 0.046 and 0.074 au. The star is roughly 1.4 solar masses and yet much dimmer than the Sun. It is a very different solar system than ours.

causi on Dec 15, 2022 [–]

What? GJ1002 is 0.12 solar masses, not 1.4.

1.4 solar masses and yet much dimmer than the Sun

This is not even physically possible unless the star is a post-main sequence white dwarf.

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