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Astronomers at MIT , the University of Liège , and elsewhere have discovered a new planet orbiting a small cold star.
The new planet orbits a nearby ultracool dwarf — a type of star that is smaller and colder than the sun.
Because it is so close to its star, the planet is blasted with 16 times more radiation per second compared to what the Earth receives from its sun.
If the planet lacks an atmosphere, scientists might soon be able to zero in on exactly what type of rocks are on its surface.
MIT ’s Benjamin Rackham led a campaign using the Magellan telescopes in Chile and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility ( IRTF ) in Hawaii to analyze the light from nearby ultracool dwarf stars.
They were then able to estimate certain properties of the star and the planet.
They think the planet must not have an atmosphere anymore because it would easily have been eroded away by the star.
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