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This is Barnard's star, a red dwarf 6 light years away. The planets are a little larger than Mars based on mass, very close in, with orbital periods of a few da
by ahazred8ta 2y ago
This is Barnard's star, a red dwarf 6 light years away. The planets are a little larger than Mars based on mass, very close in, with orbital periods of a few days, too hot for liquid water.
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/study-uchicago-scientists-finds-four-tiny-planets-around-one-our-nearest-stars https://news.uchicago.edu/story/study-uchicago-scientists-fi...
The actual paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adb8d5 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adb8d5
Barnard's star: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard's_Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard's_Star