by Led by the University of Bern, an international research team has discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star.
The discovery was also made thanks to observations performed by the SAINT-EX observatory in Mexico.
SAINT-EX is run by a consortium including the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS.
"Red dwarfs" are small stars and thus much cooler than our Sun.
Around stars like these, liquid water is possible on planets much closer to the star than in our solar system.
The distance between an exoplanet and its star is a crucial factor in its detection: the closer a planet is to its host star, the higher the probability that it can be detected.
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The discovery was also made thanks to observations performed by the SAINT-EX observatory in Mexico.
SAINT-EX is run by a consortium including the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS.
"Red dwarfs" are small stars and thus much cooler than our Sun.
Around stars like these, liquid water is possible on planets much closer to the star than in our solar system.
The distance between an exoplanet and its star is a crucial factor in its detection: the closer a planet is to its host star, the higher the probability that it can be detected.
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