Aliens on Ross 128 b? New Earth sized planet expected to be comfortable abode for possible life
This Discovery Was Made By A Team Working With European Southern Observatory, Or ESO's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) At The La Silla Observatory In Chile.
Do you know that Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet outside our solar system known as Ross 128 b. This planet is expected to be temperate and could be a "comfortable abode for possible life".
The low-mass exoplanet orbits the red dwarf star Ross 128 every 9.9 days. The star is currently located at a distance of 11 light-years from Earth.
It has also been found that the Ross 128 b orbits 20 times closer than the Earth orbits the Sun.
Despite this proximity, Ross 128 b receives only 1.38 times more irradiation than the Earth. This discovery was made by a team working with European Southern Observatory, or ESO's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
"This discovery is based on more than a decade of HARPS intensive monitoring together with state-of-the-art data reduction and analysis techniques," explained study co-author Nicola Astudillo-Defru from Geneva Observatory - University of Geneva, Switzerland.
With Inputs from Agencies.
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