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4 Tiny Planets Discovered Near Earth

4 Small Planets Found Around One of Closest Stars To Earth: What We Know

Diminutive Barnards Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us.

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4 Tiny Planets Found Orbiting Earth's Closest Solitary Star

Illustration of Barnard's Star as seen from the surface of one of its planets. (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard)

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Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth – an expert explains what we know

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now, four small planets have been found orbiting the star.

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32 alien planets that really exist

Around the distant star TRAPPIST-1, seven rocky, Earth-size planets swirl through the ... is a mere toddler in cosmic terms. (The sun, by comparison, is 4.6 billion years old.) ...

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4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard's Star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

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4 Tiny Planets Discovered Near Earth

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