The new planet was detected orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 876, which is about one third as massive as our Sun. |
The newfound planet's host star is a red dwarf with about one-fifth the mass of our sun. |
The planet orbits the M class red dwarf star Gliese 436, located only 33 light years away, in our own galactic neighborhood. |
The stellar wind from the red dwarf star removes the dust in the debris disk by causing the dust to slowly spiral into the star. |
He theorized that Krypton could have orbited a red dwarf star in the Corvus constellation, 27 light years from Earth. |
It is also the first disk imaged around an M-type red dwarf, the most common type of star in the stellar neighborhood around the Sun. |