Tag: Barnard’s Star

Artist’s impression of the surface of a super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star

The Space Environment Of Barnard’s Star b – Is It A Place For Life To Evolve?

MessageToEagle.com | April 15, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The planet around Barnard’s Star, Barnard’s Star-b (“BSb”) is the closest exoplanet to us, if we include only single stars like the Sun.

The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. Data from a worldwide array of telescopes, including ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS instrument, have revealed this frozen, dimly lit world. The newly discovered planet is the second-closest known exoplanet to the Earth and orbits the fastest moving star in the night sky. This image shows an artist’s impression of the planet’s surface. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Astronomy

Super-Earth Orbiting Barnard’s Star Is Second-Closest Known Exoplanet To Earth

MessageToEagle.com | November 19, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. Astronomers used data from a