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Using the VLBA, the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes, astronomers have found a Saturn-sized planet orbiting a small, cool star that's only 35 light years away! It's called TVLM 513–46546, it's in the direction of the constellation Boötes and it's right in our neighborhood! The planet has about a third of Jupiter's mass and is closer to its star than Mercury is to our Sun and it orbits its star once every 221 days.

 

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