Around a nearby star, astronomers find a cold planet three times the size of Earth
by Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2018
3 minutes
An international team of astronomers has detected evidence of a cold planet at least three times the size of Earth orbiting an ancient red dwarf star, right in our stellar neighborhood.
If you were traveling at the speed of light, it would take you just six years to reach it.
In the context of the universe, that's basically right next door.
The newly discovered world, described Wednesday in Nature, is associated with a small, dim star known as Barnard's star that is older than our solar system. It takes
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