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The star Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star, 20.3 light-years away. Recent observations indicate that a number of planets orbit this star, including at least one of approximately Earth's mass that astronomers say may be within the habitable zone, meaning that the temperature of the planet's surface may - MAY - allow water to exist in a liquid state.

It's important to remember that much of the speculation about Gliese 581g is EXTREMELY speculative. We don't know what sort of surface the planet might have, nor anything about the atmosphere; the ONLY things we know even approximately are the mass and the orbit.

At a first glance, it might seem like this could be a potentially habitable world - but notice all of the weasel-words that I used. We don't have ANY idea of the conditions there.

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