Orbiting less than two stellar radii above the visible surface of a Sun-like star, the Earth-sized exoplanet Kepler-78b is a hellish world. But its existence bodes well for the discovery and characterization of habitable planets. See Letters p.377 & p.381
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Deming, D. An infernal Earth. Nature 503, 344–345 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12702
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