Sentences with phrase «tiny red dwarf star»

Proxima Centauri is a cool, tiny red dwarf star.

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The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

This profound search was thrown into the limelight recently by the discovery of seven small alien worlds orbiting the tiny, red dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1.

So, now that we know a tiny rocky world orbiting a tiny star 39 light - years away can support its own atmosphere, the future could be bright for finding evidence of alien biology on super-Earths orbiting red dwarf stars.

It turns out that OGLE -2007-BLG-349 was caused by a planet orbiting two stars, both tiny red dwarfs, drifting in front of a more distant bright star.

Despite the fact that red dwarfs are tiny and dim, many of their planets may still be too hot to be habitable — even those situated within a star system's habitable zone, i.e. the zone in which rocky planets can sustain liquid water at the surface.

Now that this oddball star system has been discovered, astronomers hope to find more examples, so they can understand how massive worlds like NGTS - 1b evolve around tiny red dwarfs.