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By Joel Achenbach / The Bulletin
June 2, 2009
The nearest Earth out there in space? It might be right next door, galactically speaking.
Two teams of astronomers, one from the United States and one from Europe, are in a race to find a planet orbiting our near neighbors Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, twin stars that appear from Earth....