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Baby star found close to Earth

By Beau Gamble • August 30, 2011

Illustration of a gas giant orbiting a red dwarf star similar to AP Columbae. (Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center Astrophysics)

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Astronomers have discovered Earth’s closest infant star: a baby red dwarf, just 27 light-years away.

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