Discovery of the smallest exoplanets: The Barnard's star connection

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

The smallest exoplanets yet discovered orbit a dwarf star almost identical to Barnard's star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors. The similarity helped the astronomers calculate the size of the distant planets.

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