{"id":27006,"date":"2024-10-01T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27006"},"modified":"2024-09-30T19:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T23:25:40","slug":"eso-planet-found-orbiting-barnards-star-closest-single-star-to-our-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27006","title":{"rendered":"ESO: Planet discovered orbiting Barnard&#8217;s star, closest single star to our Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the European Southern Observatory (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2414\/\">ESO<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2414\/\">Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our Sun<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27007\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso2414a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27007\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=27007\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso2414a1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,394\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;ESO\/M. Kornmesser&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This artist\\u2019s impression shows Barnard b, a sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard\\u2019s star. Its signal was detected with the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO\\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), and astronomers were able to confirm it with data from other instruments. An earlier promising detection in 2018 around the same star could not be confirmed by these data. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus but is too hot to support liquid water, a year lasts just over three Earth days.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1727791200&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Artist\\u2019s impression of a sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnar&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Artist\u2019s impression of a sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This artist\u2019s impression shows Barnard b, a sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard\u2019s star. Its signal was detected with the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), and astronomers were able to confirm it with data from other instruments. An earlier promising detection in 2018 around the same star could not be confirmed by these data. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus but is too hot to support liquid water, a year lasts just over three Earth days.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso2414a1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27007\" src=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso2414a1-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso2414a1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso2414a1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This artist\u2019s impression shows Barnard b, a sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard\u2019s star. Its signal was detected with the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), and astronomers were able to confirm it with data from other instruments. An earlier promising detection in 2018 around the same star could not be confirmed by these data. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus but is too hot to support liquid water, a year lasts just over three Earth days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text_intro pr_first\">Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard\u2019s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days. The team\u2019s observations also hint at the existence of three more exoplanet candidates, in various orbits around the star.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Located just six light-years away, Barnard\u2019s star is the second-closest stellar system \u2014 after Alpha Centauri\u2019s three-star group \u2014 and the closest individual star to us. Owing to its proximity, it is a primary target in the search for Earth-like exoplanets. Despite a promising detection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1837\/\">back in 2018<\/a>, no planet orbiting Barnard&#8217;s star had been confirmed until now.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gaE_FDLXAz4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The discovery of this new exoplanet \u2014 announced in a paper published today in the journal <em>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/em> \u2014 is the result of observations made over the last five years with ESO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/\">VLT<\/a>, located at Paranal Observatory in Chile.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cEven if it took a long time, we were always confident that we could find something,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">says Jonay Gonz\u00e1lez Hern\u00e1ndez, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias in Spain, and lead author of the paper. The team were looking for signals from possible exoplanets within the habitable or temperate zone of Barnard\u2019s star \u2014 the range where liquid water can exist on the planet\u2019s surface. Red dwarfs like Barnard\u2019s star are often targeted by astronomers since low-mass rocky planets are easier to detect there than around larger Sun-like stars. <a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Barnard b <a href=\"#2\">[2]<\/a>, as the newly discovered exoplanet is called, is twenty times closer to Barnard\u2019s star than Mercury is to the Sun. It orbits its star in 3.15 Earth days and has a surface temperature around 125 \u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cBarnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth. But the planet is too close to the host star, closer than the habitable zone,\u201d<\/em> explains Gonz\u00e1lez Hern\u00e1ndez. \u201c<em>Even if the star is about 2500 degrees cooler than our Sun, it is too hot there to maintain liquid water on the surface.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For their observations, the team used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/vlt-instr\/espresso\/\">ESPRESSO<\/a>, a highly precise instrument designed to measure the wobble of a star caused by the gravitational pull of one or more orbiting planets. The results obtained from these observations were confirmed by data from other instruments also specialised in exoplanet hunting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/lasilla\/36\/harps\/\">HARPS<\/a> at ESO\u2019s La Silla Observatory, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HARPS-N\">HARPS-N<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carmenes.caha.es\/\">CARMENES<\/a>. The new data do not, however, support the existence of the exoplanet reported in 2018.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition to the confirmed planet, the international team also found hints of three more exoplanet candidates orbiting the same star. These candidates, however, will require additional observations with ESPRESSO to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe now need to continue observing this star to confirm the other candidate signals,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">says Alejandro Su\u00e1rez Mascare\u00f1o, a researcher also at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias and co-author of the study.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201c<em>But the discovery of this planet, along with other previous discoveries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2202\/\">Proxima b and d<\/a>, shows that our cosmic backyard is full of low-mass planets<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ESO\u2019s Extremely Large Telescope (<a href=\"https:\/\/elt.eso.org\/telescope\/\">ELT<\/a>), currently under construction, is set to transform the field of exoplanet research. The ELT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/elt.eso.org\/instrument\/ANDES\/\">ANDES instrument<\/a> will allow researchers to detect more of these small, rocky planets in the temperate zone around nearby stars, beyond the reach of current telescopes, and enable them to study the composition of their atmospheres.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27008\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso1837e\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27008\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=27008\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso1837e1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,397\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;IEEC\/Science-Wave \\u2013 Guillem Ra&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Graphic representation of the relative distances between the nearest stars and the Sun. Barnard\\u2019s star is the second closest star system to the Sun, and the nearest single star to us.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542222000&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The nearest stars to the Sun (infographic)&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The nearest stars to the Sun (infographic)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Graphic representation of the relative distances between the nearest stars and the Sun. Barnard\u2019s star is the second closest star system to the Sun, and the nearest single star to us.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso1837e1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27008\" src=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso1837e1-500x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso1837e1-500x284.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eso1837e1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic representation of the relative distances between the nearest stars and the Sun. Barnard\u2019s star is the second closest star system to the Sun, and the nearest single star to us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"1\"><\/a>[1] Astronomers target cool stars, like red dwarfs, because their temperate zone is much closer to the star than that of hotter stars, like the Sun. This means that the planets orbiting within their temperate zone have shorter orbital periods, allowing astronomers to monitor them over several days or weeks, rather than years. In addition, red dwarfs are much less massive than the Sun, so they are more easily disturbed by the gravitational pull of the planets around them and thus they wobble more strongly.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"2\"><\/a>[2] It\u2019s common practice in science to name exoplanets by the name of their host star with a lowercase letter added to it, \u2018b\u2019 indicating the first known planet, \u2019c\u2019 the next one, and so on. The name Barnard b was therefore also given to a previously suspected planet candidate around Barnard&#8217;s star, which scientists were unable to confirm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/archives\/releases\/sciencepapers\/eso2414\/eso2414a.pdf\">Research paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/archive\/category\/paranal\/\">Photos of the VLT<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">For journalists: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/outreach\/pressmedia\/#epodpress_form\">subscribe to receive our releases under embargo in your language<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">For scientists: got a story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/pitch-your-research\/%20\">Pitch your research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>===<\/em><strong><em> Amazon Ads <\/em><\/strong><em>===<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Ihq7zn\">Celestron &#8211; NexStar 130SLT Computerized Telescope &#8211;<br \/>\nCompact and Portable &#8211;<br \/>\nNewtonian Reflector Optical Design &#8211;<br \/>\nSkyAlign Technology &#8211;<br \/>\nComputerized Hand Control &#8211;<br \/>\n130mm Aperture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;language=en_US&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0007UQNNQ&amp;asins=B0007UQNNQ&amp;linkId=075d3255a406b73a3bba790b9e5a30e4&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>===<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CCZVen\">When the Heavens Went on Sale:<br \/>\nThe Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;language=en_US&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0062998870&amp;asins=0062998870&amp;linkId=0cb8eac98dd03fb5e8e406ea27cdcb8f&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the European Southern Observatory (ESO): Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our Sun Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard\u2019s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESO: Planet discovered orbiting Barnard&#8217;s star, closest single star to our Sun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,46,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-exoplanets","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-71A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17069,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17069","url_meta":{"origin":27006,"position":0},"title":"ESO: Evidence found for super-earth orbiting Barnard&#8217;s Star","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest ESO (European Southern Observatory) report: Super-Earth Orbiting Barnard\u2019s Star Red Dots campaign uncovers compelling evidence of exoplanet around closest single star to Sun The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth \u2014 a so-called super-Earth. 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