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[dupe] Seven alien, Earth-sized planets found just 39 light years from Earth (nature.com)
21 points by traviswingo on Aug 22, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



tl;dr - This article is from Feb 2017 and is about TRAPPIST-1


No reason to put "alien" in the headline expect to make it more click-baity.


"Alien" actually doesn't refer to little green/gray humanoids from the movies...by the very definition the plants are "alien," since they differ from Earth and are unknown (or foreign) to us.


Honestly, I wish there was an extension that could translate click bait phrases to non-click bait ones. It'd be hard to do w/o first reading the article though.




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