Ngts-1 Red Dwarf And Its Planet
by Mark Garlick/science Photo Library
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Ngts-1 Red Dwarf And Its Planet
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Mark Garlick/science Photo Library
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NGTS-1 red dwarf (centre) and its planet (lower right), illustration. The NGTS (Next-Generation Transit Survey) is located in the Atacama desert in Chile, with a primary aim to locate extrasolar planets with masses and sizes between those of Earth and Neptune. One of the discoveries is NGTS-1, a red dwarf star about half the diameter of the Sun. It has been found to host a gas giant planet almost one-quarter of its size, which makes it the largest known planet in relation to its star.
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September 25th, 2018
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