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Welcome back. It's another edition of cool stuff right home I'm Marcus Paff he's Reggie Rizu and on today's episode a new

exoplanet is discovered circling our nearest star neighbor and no I'm not talking about the sun

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and a blue lobster. Plus, on this day in history, 1851, the Picillillinic sympathetic compass

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Well, turning to Science Daily to get started this morning, using the European Southern Observatory's very large telescope.

Yes, that is the actual name. ESO's VLT. Astronomers have observed an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our sun.

Now, on this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year less, just over three Earth days.

The team's observations also hint at the existence of three more exoplanet candidates in various orbits around the star.

Located just six light years away, Barnard Star is the second closest stellar system

after Alpha Centauri's three-star group and the closest individual star to us.

Owing to its proximity, it's a primary target in the search for Earth-like exoplanets.

Despite a promising detection back in 2018, however, no planet orbiting Barnard Star had been confirmed until now. The discovery of this new exoplanet announced at a paper published earlier this week in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics is the result of observations made over the last five years with ESOs VLT,

located Perennial Observatory in Chile.

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