An international scientific team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has identified a new super-Earth orbiting the star HD 176986, a K-type dwarf located about 91 light-years away. The finding, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, brings the number of known planets in this system to three and confirms the value of long-term observation campaigns for detecting small, wide-orbiting worlds. The observation campaign of HD 176986, an orange dwarf star or K-type star, slightly smaller than the Sun and located about 91 light-years away, has highlighted the
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