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Exoplanets around a red dwarf star

author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Novapix

reference: a-exo99-00046

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 17 cm

This artist's concept illustrates a young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets. Such stars are dimmer and smaller than yellow stars like our sun, which makes them ideal targets for astronomers wishing to take images of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

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2011 - ASTRONOMY - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - ILLUSTRATION - PLANET - RED DWARF - STAR -