Candidate 'Goldilocks' Planets Debunked, New Research Finds | Animation
Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
Turns out that two candidate planets thought to reside in the habitable zone of red dwarf star Gliese 581 are not planets at all. New research by astronomers at Penn State University finds that the signals were just magnetic activity from the star.