An international team of astronomers has found 60 new planets orbiting stars close to earth's solar system, including a rocky "super Earth."
The recently- discovered Earth-like planet called Proxima b. is about 4 light years from Earth. This new discovery has certainly piqued the interest of various astronomy experts across the globe.
A single planet in particular, Gliese 411b, has been making plenty of attention. Referred to as a "hot very Earth with a rugged surface, " Gliese 411b is positioned in the fourth-nearest star system to the Sun, so that it is the third-nearest planetary system to the Sun, in line with the U. T. 's University of Hertfordshire, which participated in your research. Gliese 411b (also known as GJ 411b or Lalande 21185) orbits the star Gliese 411 (or GJ 411
Despite the "super Earth" label, Medical professional. Mikko Tuomi from University or college of Hertfordshire's Centre for Astrophysics told Fox Information that Gliese 411b is too hot for life to exist on their surface.
Gliese 411 and Gliese 411b can be found almost 8 light years from globe. A light year, which measures distance in space, equals 6 trillion a long way.
By way of comparability, the recently-discovered Earth-like world Proxima b, which orbits the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, is all about 4 light years from Earth. A red dwarf is a relatively cool small celebrity.
The discoveries derive from correction taken over 20 years by U. S. astronomers using the Keck-I telescope in Hawaii as part of the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey. During the course of the research, experts obtained almost 61, 1000 observations of 1, six hundred stars, which are now available to the population.
Financed by NASA and the National Science Foundation, the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey makes use of the talents of globe hunters from an amount of organizations, including the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution for Research in Washington, D. C.
The Carnegie Institution of Science also led a team that included VIA to release the information on the almost 61, 1000 observations of 1, six-hundred stars.