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Our Sun and all the planets around it are part of a galaxy known as the Milky Way. Our galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter and contains hundreds of billions of stars, along with enough gas and dust to make billions more stars.

A galaxy is a large group of stars, gas, and dust bound together by gravity. The total number of galaxies contained in the observable universe is estimated to be in the hundreds of billions. Like more than two-thirds of the known galaxies, the Milky Way has a spiral shape, organized into arms of giant stars that illuminate interstellar gas and dust.

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PLANET TYPE Super Earth	DISCOVERY DATE 2018
MASS Unknown	PLANET RADIUS 1.313 x Earth
ORBITAL RADIUS Unknown	ORBITAL PERIOD 10.6 days
ECCENTRICITY Unknown	DETECTION METHOD Transit

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