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CAT 2015 Verbal and Reading Comprehension

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The planet is tidally locked to its star, much as the moon is to Earth, and has one face in permanent daylight, the other in darkness.
Given the world’s size and mass, researchers suspect it is rocky, like the inner planets of our solar system.
It orbits 1.4m miles from its star, far closer than Mercury, which is never less than 36m miles from the sun
Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way but because of their low luminosity, individual red dwarfs cannot easily be observed.
Because the red dwarf is so small, and the planet is on such a close orbit, astronomers should find it fairly easy to detect and study any atmosphere the world has.

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