After 50 Years of Searching for Exoplanets, We Found Our Smallest Cosmic Neighbors Orbiting Local St

Astronomers have identified 4 exoplanets orbiting the nearest single star to Earth, an effort that had been ongoing for 50 years and produced many false positives. These rather small planets are a stone’s throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to detect. Barnard’s Star is a low-mass red dwarf […] The post After 50 Years of Searching for Exoplanets, We Found Our Smallest Cosmic Neighbors Orbiting Local Star appeared first on Good News Network.

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