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SpaceAstronomers find an ultra-dense mega-Earth 23 times our planet’s mass but only 2.5 times its size

A young world 23.5 times Earth’s mass may define a rare class of dense planets that sit between rocky worlds and sub-Neptunes.

Joseph Shavit
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