Gliese 849

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Gliese 849 is a solar system with at least one exoplanet was discovered in October 2006. The star is about 30 light-years away from Earth.

The Star

Gliese 849 was discovered in the Bonner Durchmusterung production and was given the designation BD -5 ° 5715th The star is a red dwarf, is about one -third of the mass of the Sun and is about three billion years old. Compared to our sun, the star probably much more heavy elements.

The Planet

The planet Gliese 849 to systematically called Gliese 849 b, has at least 82 percent of the mass of Jupiter and orbits its star in the average distance of 2.35 astronomical units. Since the planet is as far away from a pretty cold star, it is very cold there and the likelihood that there has developed life, is very low.