Scientists finds four tiny planets around one of our nearest stars
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/study-uchicago-scientists-finds-four-tiny-planets-around-one-our-nearest-stars
Scientists finds four tiny planets around one of our nearest stars
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/study-uchicago-scientists-finds-four-tiny-planets-around-one-our-nearest-stars
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This is great. These planets have been known since last year, but only 1 was confirmed. Who knew that Barnard’s star is a really compact and small system.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a few others, and there’s still a chance, albeit small, that there’s a planet in the habitable zone. Though given the upper mass limits, it’ll be unlikely to actually be habitable. Maybe closer to a Super-Mars.
>The four planets, each only about 20 to 30% the mass of Earth,
They are so small; it’s amazing how technology is capable of detecting such small planets.
This headline is so far from being the typical click-bait headline about new planet discoveries promising never before seen discoveries, that it immediately appealed to me, and I clicked it. Pretty damn decent and straightforward headline for space news. I don’t mind reading about just another four new planets.
so now tiny planets are actual planets. Pluto done dirty…
Amazing what we can tease out of a few photons detected over time by many people. The fact that these exoplanets do not eclipse Barnard’s Star from our viewpoint makes this discovery all the more important.