The little world orbits Barnards star, a red dwarf about six light-years from Earth.
Barnards star is a dim, cool star about one-seventh the mass of our Sun.
The same could be said for the spunky exoplanet, but in the opposite direction as a thermometer reads.
An artist’s impression of the exoplanet orbit Barnard’s star.Illustration: ESO/M. Kornmesser
It does not, so life as we know it cant exist on the exoplanet.
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