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In a real-life Star Trek discovery astronomers think they might have found Vulcan

The new exoplanet is in a constellation only 16 light years from Earth, and it orbits a sun-like star called 40 Eridani A – known in Star Trek world as the host star of the pointy-eared Spock’s home planet Vulcan.

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