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Posted on 03/12/2025 12:32:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.
The four planets, each only about 20 to 30% the mass of Earth, are so close to their home star that they zip around the entire star in a matter of days. That probably means they are too hot to be habitable, but the find is a new benchmark for discovering smaller planets around nearby stars.
"It's a really exciting find -- Barnard's Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it," said Ritvik Basant, Ph.D student at the University of Chicago and first author on the study. "It's signaling a breakthrough with the precision of these new instruments from previous generations."
The finding adds weight to a November study by a team using a different telescope, which had found strong evidence for one planet around Barnard's Star and hints at others.
The new study, which included scientists with the Gemini Observatory/National Science Foundation NOIRLab, Heidelberg University, and the University of Amsterdam, is published March 11 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
20-30% of the earth isn’t tiny by me.
Put some tiny houses there and start a midget community.
More Planets!.................
I’ve looked into the method they use to detect these distant planets and am skeptical that they can describe them with any level of detail at all. The ONLY sign that we have that a planet is orbiting a star is a “slight dimming” in the star’s magnitude as the planet transits a star’s face from our standpoint.
This is the second closest star system, but scientists still claim to be able to determine details of planets hundreds of light years away. I call bunk.
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Because Marron 5 was already taken.😄
That’s about half the size of Mars
Horrible reporting ...
How far away is this 2nd closest star.
I go link after link and nothing.
This is the second closest star system, but scientists still claim to be able to determine details of planets hundreds of light years away.
I call bunk.
I agree with 99% NASA bunk.
I have found some pretty decent SF shorts on YouTube. Some under the name of Dust.
If they are calling it the second closest system, they are counting Alpha Centauri (a double star) and Proxima Centauri as one system.
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