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Gliese 887 is a red dwarf only 11 light years away. Göttingen astronomers have just discovered two planets orbiting around him, which are most likely in the super Earth category. The planets orbiting the stars closest to us are by their very nature the best laboratories for studying other planetary systems. It is on them that we can train new generation telescopes to study other planets, their atmospheres and, of course, in the search for life. As part of research at the University of Göttingen, astronomers forming the RedDots team discovered a system of two planets orbiting the red Dwarf Gliese 887. New exoplanets in our immediate cosmic environment Astronomers looked at Gliese 887 using the HARPS spectrograph installed on the telescopes of the European Southern Observatory in Chile. By observing the movement of the star towards the Earth and the opposite, the researchers checked whether the star periodically approaches and moves away from us. Such a movement indicates that a...