ESO VLT discovers new exoplanet around the nearby Barnard star, only 6 light years away.

It's fascinating we are living through a time when exoplanets are first being found . This planet is closer to its Red Dwarf star then Mercury is to our far far hotter G-type star. Still, the surface temperature is only 25 degrees Celsius above boiling point.

On the galactic scale its the second-nearest star to us out of billions.