Exoplanet orbiting red dwarf star
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This is an image of the system Mu2 Scorpii 615 light years away taken with the Very Large Telescope. In the middle is a massive star, whose brightness was lowered to allow us to see the exoplanet b in the circle. The other objects are just stars in the background. There are only about 20 directly imaged exoplanets so far.
Astronomers confirmed the existence of three exoplanets TOI-1820 b, TOI-2025 b, and TOI-2158 b. Their method also uncovered their masses, which gives scientists a better idea about their density and structure. All three are similar in size to Jupiter and orbit their stars on very tight orbits.
Star TOI 500 is located 155 light years from the Solar system. There was already a known exoplanet orbiting it, now there are 3 more. The system now consists of 2 very close exoplanets and two more bit further (all of them are still closer to their star than Earth to Sun).