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Kepler-62f Super-Earth Exoplanet

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Kepler-62f is a Super-Earth exoplanet.

A star and its planets form out of a collapsing cloud of dust and gas within a larger cloud called a nebula. As gravity pulls material in the collapsing cloud closer together, the centre of the cloud gets more and more compressed and, in turn, gets hotter. This dense, hot core is the beginning of a new star.
Meanwhile, the cloud churns and begins to rotate in one direction, the cloud then flattens out into a disk with the core of the star in the centre. Over time, this disk gets thinner and thinner, forming a protoplanetary disk. The material within the disk starts to stick together, forming small clumps, and grow larger and larger. These clumps are the beginnings of a new planet, a plantesimal.
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