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This artist\u2019s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. The brightest star in the sky is the red dwarf Gliese 667 C, which is part of a triple star system. The other two more distant stars, Gliese 667 A and B appear in the sky also, to the right. Astronomers estimate that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the Milky Way alone.
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Maybe Earth isn\u2019t<\/em> just a run-of-the-mill planet in an ordinary solar system revolving around a mediocre star in an insignificant place in a typical arm of an ordinary spiral galaxy:<\/p>\n

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I do, by the way, disagree with the author\u2019s assumption \u2014 a very common one, and the one with which I grew up \u2014 that Copernicus removed us from our privileged place at the center of the Universe. \u00a0Anybody who knows\u00a0ancient natural philosophy will understand that our position wasn\u2019t understood to be\u00a0central<\/em>\u00a0so much as low<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 Maybe Earth isn\u2019t just a run-of-the-mill planet in an ordinary solar system revolving around a mediocre star in an insignificant place in a typical arm of an ordinary spiral galaxy: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/exoplanet-census-suggests-earth-is-special-after-all\/ \u00a0 I do, by the way, disagree with the author\u2019s assumption \u2014 a very common one, and the one with which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth is Special After All"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    Maybe Earth isn't just a run-of-the-mill planet in an ordinary solar system revolving around a mediocre star in an 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