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Guantanamo Prison Planet in the near future?

European astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our solar system, and here’s what it might be like to live there:

The "sun" wouldn’t burn brightly. It would hang close, large and red in the sky, glowing faintly like a charcoal ember. And it probably would never set if you lived on the sunny side of the planet.

You could have a birthday party every 13 days because that’s how fast this new planet circles its sun-like star. But watch the cake — you’d weigh a whole lot more than you do on Earth.

Read more: CNN

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