94 Ceti b
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94 Ceti b or 94 Ceti Ab to distinguish it from the distant red dwarf
companion, is an extrasolar planet
orbiting its star
once every 1.2 years. It was discovered on August 7, 2000 by a team led by Michel Mayor
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Red dwarf
According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool star, of the main sequence, either late K or M spectral type....
companion, is an extrasolar planet
Extrasolar planet
An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars...
orbiting its star
94 Ceti
94 Ceti is a binary star system approximately 73 light-years away in the constellation Cetus.94 Ceti A is a yellow-white dwarf star with about 1.3 times the mass of the Sun while 94 Ceti B is a red dwarf star...
once every 1.2 years. It was discovered on August 7, 2000 by a team led by Michel Mayor
Michel Mayor
Dr. Michel G. E. Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva...
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