The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the solar system, the planet closest to the Sun\u2014Mercury, with an orbit of 88 days\u2014is also the smallest. But NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered thousands of systems full of very large planets\u2014called super-Earths\u2014in very small orbits that zip around their host star several times every 10 days.
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\nSource: Phys.org
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