Do 3 Habitable Super-Earths Really Orbit a Nearby Star?
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 11:30
in Astronomy & Space
From its position 22 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius, the red M dwarf star Gliese 667 C doesn’t look like much. Its dim light is lost to the naked eye, washed out by two brighter companion stars. Yet this tiny, exceedingly average star could play a crucial role in establishing that small, potentially Earth-like planets are common throughout our galaxy . Researchers have announced that seven planets orbit that star--and, if their mathematical analyses are correct, three of them could be habitable. [More]