Earth-like planet may be first of many

• Autores: Maggie McKee
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2536, 2006, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Planet hunters have detected what seems to be the smallest extrasolar planet so far, orbiting a red dwarf 22,000 light years away. Because red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the Milky Way, this might mean that Earth-like planets are abundant in our galaxy. In any case, it bodes well for "gravitational microlensing," the technique used to find this exoplanet.