Super-Earths discovered orbiting red dwarf star

  1. Macquarie University
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  5. Super-Earths discovered orbiting red dwarf star

The international RedDots team has detected a system of super-Earth planets orbiting the brightest red dwarf star in the sky, Gliese 887.

Image of a Red Dwarf

The study, published in Science, was co-authored by Dr Simon O'Toole from AAO-Macquarie.

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29 Jun 2020