# @ESO on Twitter

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://twitter.com/ESO/status/1841085853130522684
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28629219-ESO-twitter
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/8404d54dd3.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-10-01T12:00:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** ESO (@ESO) — https://gondola.cc/ESO

## Caption

📢 Breaking news! ESO's #VLT has discovered a planet around the closest single star to our Sun! 🪐🔭

https://t.co/xepUlivtiV

At just 6 light years away, Barnard b is also one of the few known exoplanets with a mass less than that of Earth. 

Illustration: ESO/M. Kornmesser https://t.co/yjUCChIvFl

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