New Earths discovered around a very small star

18/06/2019
The “Teegarden” star is only 12.5 light years away from us. This is one of the smallest stars, a red dwarf, in the direction of the constellation of Aries. Its surface temperature is 2,700O C and its mass is only one tenth that of the Sun. Even though it is so near, its faintness impeded its discovery until 2003. The co-authors of the article published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics are Víctor Sánchez Béjar, a researcher at the IAC and doctoral students Severo Ochoa from the IAC Lucía González Cuesta and Rafael Luque, among others. >> Read more