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Baby Red Dwarf Found Just 27 Light Years Away

Posted by Unknown on from the think-i'll-swing-by-for-lunch dept.

bazzalunatic writes "Astronomers have found an infant red dwarf star 27 light years away from Earth, and it's just 40 million years old. 'The star has been known about and studied for the past 15 years, but it wasn't realized it was so young and so close, until now,' co-author Simon Murphy, a PhD student from the Australian National University said in the story. More accurate measurements from telescopes have aided the revised distances of the star dubbed 'AP Colombae.'"

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  1. i want my baby dwarf baby dwarf baby dwarf i want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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