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Small rocky planet detected in orbit about nearby Barnard's star

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Barnard 's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun.

At about 6 light years away, it is the closest single star - one not orbiting with other stars - to our solar system.

The confirmed planet, called Barnard b, has a predicted diameter about three-quarters that of Earth , so about 6,000 miles ( 9,700 km ) "It is one of the least massive planets ever found," said astronomer Jonay González Hernández .

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