Two Earth-like planets just 12.5 light yrs away, orbiting red dwarf: Study

Its surface temperature is 2,700 degrees Celsius, and its mass is only one-tenth that of the Sun, researchers said

Current Affairs:-Researchers have found two new Earth-like planets around one of the nearest stars inside our galactic neighborhood.

The planets are found just 12.5 light years away circling the Teegarden star – a red smaller person toward the group of stars of Aries, as indicated by the investigation distributed in the diary Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Its surface temperature is 2,700 degrees Celsius, and its mass is only one-tenth that of the Sun, scientists said.

Despite the fact that it is so close to, its faintness blocked its revelation until 2003.

“We have been watching this star for a long time to search for intermittent varieties in its speed,” said Mathias Zechmeister, a scientist at the University of Gottingen in Germany.

The perceptions demonstrated that two planets are circling it, them two like the planets in the internal piece of the Solar System.

They are only somewhat greater than the Earth and are arranged in the ‘livable zone’ where water can exist as a fluid, as per the scientists.

“It is conceivable that the two planets are a piece of a bigger framework,” said Stefan Dreizler, an analyst at the University of Gottingen.

Photometric crusades on this star have been completed with the Carlos Sanchez Telescope at the Teide Observatory in Spain, and with the system of telescopes of the Las Cumbres Observatory, among others.

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