Hunting Venus 2.0: Scientists sharpen their sights

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Hunting Venus 2.0: Scientists sharpen their sights

Study narrows James Webb Space Telescope targets

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With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest they’ve ever been to finding an analog of Earth’s “twin.” 

Scientists who wrote the paper began with more than 300 known terrestrial planets orbiting other stars, called exoplanets. They whittled the list down to the five most likely to resemble Venus in terms of their radii, masses, densities, the shapes of their orbits, and perhaps most significantly, distances from their stars. 

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