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In an attempt to search for distant planets around red dwarfs, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago in the United States, developed a special instrument called MAROON-X.

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Many of these are recent highfliers with distant visions of profits.

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Opinion polls show the party in a distant third in the popularity stakes.

Bombing electricity generation, transmission and fuel was a distant third in tangible effects on Germany and Japan’s war efforts.

The hard part, and the costly part, was building out the infrastructure needed to link distant cities and millions of homes and offices.

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