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Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3 - Nature Astronomy

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Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3 - Nature Astronomy

Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary population largely unexplored, and only one of them, TRAPPIST-1, has so far been found to host a transiting planetary system. In this context, we present the SPECULOOS project's detection of an Earth-sized planet in a 17 h orbit around an ultracool dwarf of M6.5 spectral type located 16.8 pc away.

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