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Hubble Space Telescope captures a planet’s atmosphere being blasted away b
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The red dwarf star, called AU Microscopii, or AU Mic, is located outside of our solar system, 32 light-years from Earth, which is relatively close. It’s home to one of the youngest planetary systems ever observed, and the star is less than 100 million years old, as per CNN.
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Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume. These worlds, located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are unlike any planets
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Super-earths discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], June 26 (ANI): In research led by the University of Gottingen, the RedDots team of astronomers has detected a system of super-Earth planets orbiting the nearby star Gliese 887, the brightest red dwarf star in the sky.
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