Three exoplanets discovered in the system of the red dwarf GJ 357
An article published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” reports the discovery of three exoplanets in the system of the red dwarf GJ 357. A team of researchers led by Rafael Luque of the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute identified the innermost exoplanet, named GJ 357 b, thanks to the observations conducted by NASA’s TESS space telescope while the other two, named GJ 357 c and GJ 357 d, were discovered using the radial velocity method thanks to data collected over twenty years of observations of various ground-based telescopes. The three exoplanets could all be rocky and the outermost is within its star system’s habitable zone.
