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Discovery Of Three Planets Generates Possibilities Of Another Earth

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Thetransit of Mercury, a rare planetary event, will take place on Monday, May 9th. In other celestial three Earth-like planetshave been discovered around a red-dwarf star. Joining us to explain the scientific significance of this news is Point Park University professor and astrophysicist Brendan Mullan.

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