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The second confirmed planet is LHS 3884b—a rocky planet about 1.3 times the size of the Earth, located nearly 49 light years away in the constellation Indus. It revolves around a cool M-type dwarf star, about 1/5th the size of our Sun. This planet is so close to its star that it may have pools of molten lava across is surface in the daytime. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS