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Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the with-an-oink-oink-here-and-a...oh,-wait dept.

takyon writes:

Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star

Astronomers have discovered a planet around one of the closest stars to our Sun.

Nearby planets like this are likely to be prime targets in the search for signatures of life, using the next generation of telescopes.

The planet's mass is thought to be more than three times that of our own, placing it in a category of world know as "super-Earths".

It orbits Barnard's star, which sits "just" six light-years away.

Writing in the journal Nature [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0677-y] [DX], Guillem Anglada Escudé and colleagues say this newly discovered world has a mass 3.2 times bigger than the Earth's.

Barnard's Star.

Also at phys.org.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @11:54PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @11:54PM (#761972)

    > Instead of fighting all the time ...

    I've been on board as a pacifist all my life. When a neighborhood bully decided to beat me up for no apparent reason (middle school), I just sat down and he didn't know what to do next. I remember that as a very stressful event, but one with a good outcome (luckily he wasn't so committed that he started beating on me while I was down!)

    This isn't any kind of religious pacifism, it's all personal. I've never had anything to do with religion. Point of pride, I've never been to a regularly scheduled church service, parents didn't take me to church.

    On the other hand, I've been in a few business conflicts and then I fight hard.

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:19AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:19AM (#762000) Homepage Journal

    I used to get beat up all the time but then I somehow figured out how to knock someone flat with just one punch.

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