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Real-life ‘Star Trek’ planet was actually an illusion caused by a ‘stressed’ star

A planet beyond the solar system that has been compared to Spock’s home world of Vulcan in the Star Trek series may be nothing more than an illusion caused by a strained star. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet” (a term for a planet outside our solar system), is proposed to orbit a star called 40… Read More »