Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star

Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star

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https://phys.org/news/2018-11-astronomers-super-earth-barnard-star.html

The potentially rocky planet, known as Barnard's star b, is a 'super-Earth' with a mass of at least 3.2 times that of the Earth, and it orbits around its host star once every 233 days.

The results, published in the journal Nature, show the planet lies at a distant region from the star known as the 'snow line'. This is well beyond the habitable zone in which liquid water, and possibly life, could exist.