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Sunrise from the Surface of Gliese 581c (4.06)

Karen Wehrstein created an artistic representation of a sunrise on Gliese 581c, the most Earth-like planet known. It lies more than twenty light-years away. Though it has five times the mass of Earth, it was found that the oceans could have possibly sustained life.