New Zealand Astronomers Find a New Star + Planet
June 6, 2008
A New Zealand-based astronomy organisation has discovered a tiny star with its own planet slightly larger than Earth, 3000 light years away.
The discovery was made by the Japan-New Zealand Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration, which said the star the planet’s equivalent of the sun was the smallest on record to have an orbiting planet.
It has a mass about 6 per cent of our sun and is so small it may be incapable of producing energy by nuclear reactions.
The planet is slightly larger than Earth, has a smaller orbital radius, similar to Venus, and, due to the small size of the star, is likely to be colder than Pluto, according to the MOA.
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