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Gliese 436 is a red dwarf approximately 33.1 light-years (10.1 parsecs) away in the zodiac constellation of Leo. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 10.67 which is much too faint to be seen with the naked eye. However it can be viewed with even a modest telescope of 2.4 in (6 cm) aperture. In 2004 the existence of a transiting extrasolar planet Gliese 436b was verified as orbiting the star. In 2012 the existence of a second planet UCF-1.01 was also verified.

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