A red dwarf star just 105 light-years away may be hosting at least one habitable world.
In close orbit around the cool, dim star, scientists have found and confirmed two rocky exoplanets – one comfortably at a distance range to the star known as the habitable zone.
So, either way, the discovery is an important data point for characterizing the population of these exoplanets. Transit data can tell us a fair bit about an exoplanet. There's the fact of its existence, for one. Then there's the orbital period. And, based on how much the starlight dims, scientists can also infer the diameter of the exoplanet.
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