Smallest Known Exoplanet

8 Apr 2013 Science News
Published in the "Nordic News In Brief" section of Nordita News issue 1, 2013

The Stellar Astrophysics Centre at Aarhus University is part of an international research group that recently announced in Nature the discovery of a new exoplanet, circling a star 212 lightyears away from Denmark. About the size of our Moon, Kepler Planet 37b is the smallest planet discovered since the observation of the first exoplanet in 1989.