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A planet discovered outside our solar system is smaller than Mercury, the smallest planet orbiting our sun. The planet, about the size of the Earth’s moon, is one of three orbiting a star designated Kepler-37 in the Cygnus-Lyra region of the Milky Way. “The detection of such a small planet shows for the first time …