An excellent-Earth orbiting its red-dwarf
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Over 300 years in the past, the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that ours was one of the best of all attainable worlds. The phrase “world” comes from Old English, initially which means Earth, and later extending to the bodily world in …