For many years, scientists and science fiction authors have speculated about whether or not Barnard’s megastar, the quickest shifting megastar within the night time sky and simply six light-years from the solar, may host a planet (one illustrated).
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No planet for Barnard’s megastar? — Science Information, December 1, 1973
Over time proof has been introduced ahead for planetary partners revolving round two or 3 stars as opposed to the solar. The primary of those used to be Barnard’s megastar, which were studied via Peter van de Kamp…. The presence of a planet may reason a wobble in a celeb’s movement around the sky. Van de Kamp discovered a wobble.… [Further] scrutiny does now not to find the [wobble].… Thus there could be no planet.
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Astronomers now know of 1000’s of exoplanets within the Milky Approach (SN: 4/23/22, p. 5). However Barnard’s megastar continues to be with no showed exoplanet in spite of cautious scrutiny. A 2018 declare of an exoplanet about thrice as huge as Earth has been wondered. In July, a survey of 200 low-mass purple dwarfs, together with Barnard’s megastar, discovered no Jupiter-sized exoplanets (SN: 7/15/23 & 7/29/23, p. 9). Such stars can have sufficient particles round them to variety handiest small exoplanets.
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