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Exoplanets around a red dwarf star

by

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Novapix

Reference

a-exo99-00046

Date

2011-04-13

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.