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

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Description: 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.
Title: Artist’s impression of the surface of a super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star
Credit: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1837a/
Author: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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