According to Mehr news agency, quoted by Space, the volume of the planet outside the new solar system is half of Venus, and for this reason, it is classified in the category of planets smaller than Earth (Sub-Earth).
The duration of the orbit of this extrasolar planet called “Barnard B” around its red dwarf star is equivalent to 3 Earth days. Also, the distance of the mentioned star to us is 6 light years. In other words, Barnard Bay is about 1.8 million miles from Barnard’s star. Such a distance seems very close, but it is only equivalent to 5% of the distance between the Sun and the closest planet to it (Mercury).
Junay González Hernández of the Instituto Astrofísico de Canaris in Spain said in a statement: “Barnard B is one of the least massive planets outside the solar system and also one of the few known planets with a mass less than Earth.” But this planet has a very short distance from its host star and is not located in an area that can sustain life. So even if the star is 2,500 degrees cooler than the Sun, the temperature of the planet would be too hot for liquid water to exist on its surface.
This researcher and his colleagues discovered Barnard B using the VLT telescope in the Atacama desert in northern Chile.
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