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Home This rendering of the young planet AU Mic b is part of NASA’s fun-but-informative Galaxy of Horrors poster series. The planet’s star, AU Microscopii, emits powerful, fiery flares that would likely terrorize any lifeforms that tried to make a home here. (NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program) This rendering of the young planet AU Mic b is part of NASA's fun-but-informative Galaxy of Horrors poster series. The planet's star, AU Microscopii, emits powerful, fiery flares that would likely terrorize any lifeforms that tried to make a home here. (NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program)

This rendering of the young planet AU Mic b is part of NASA’s fun-but-informative Galaxy of Horrors poster series. The planet’s star, AU Microscopii, emits powerful, fiery flares that would likely terrorize any lifeforms that tried to make a home here. (NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program)

This rendering of the young planet AU Mic b is part of NASA's fun-but-informative Galaxy of Horrors poster series. The planet's star, AU Microscopii, emits powerful, fiery flares that would likely terrorize any lifeforms that tried to make a home here. (NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program)

This rendering of the young planet AU Mic b is part of NASA’s fun-but-informative Galaxy of Horrors poster series. The planet’s star, AU Microscopii, emits powerful, fiery flares that would likely terrorize any lifeforms that tried to make a home here. (NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program)

This image is an artist’s concept of the planet AU Mic b and its young parent star. The faint band of light encircling the pair is a disk of gas and dust from which both the star and the planet formed. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA))
This artist’s concept shows the dusty disk surrounding the star AU MIcroscopii. Astronomers have studied this system extensively but only recently identified the presence of a planet there. The find provides a laboratory for studying planet evolution and formation. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA))