More observations are needed to confirm the existence of the alien world, however.
, but with a mass less than half that of our star. The red dwarf is also a virtual infant in comparison to the nearly 4.6 billion-year-old sun; it's estimated to be just 4.7 million years old.
Prior observations of 2MASS J04124068+2438157 revealed that the star may be surrounded by an extended disk of dust. This prompted a team of astronomers led by Feng Long of the University of Arizona to observe the star with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array , a network of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Emissions from around the red dwarf star 2MASS J04124068+2438157 indicating a double ring of dust.
The team hoped to better understand the disk looping around the dwarf star, but what they actually uncovered was the presence of two separate structures: The red dwarf's dust disk is made up of two rings, one around 6.5 billion miles from the star and the other around 10 billion miles away.
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