One in a million: Super Earth found 25,000 light years away from our planet!
The Super Earth has been found in the Milky Way 25,000 light-years away from us.The Astronomers from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have found a new planet in the galaxy that bears several similarities to our planet Earth & said that it is huge and bigger than Earth in size & can be considered to be as big as Neptune. The planet is reportedly called 'One In A Million planet', as mankind has always been searching for a planet similar to Earth. It is unclear if the planet can host any type of life as the temperature of its star is unknown.
The researchers further explained that if the star emits high levels of radiation, then the planet will most likely be unfavourable for life.This new planet orbits around a dim dwarf star or a brown dwarf which is located 25,000 light-years away from us, in the centre of the Milky Way. The planet takes around 617 Earth days to complete a full orbit around its host star. However, in comparison to the sun, the dwarf star is only about one-tenth of the mass of the sun. The distance between the newly found alien planet and the host star is similar to between where Earth and Venus orbit around the sun.
The Scientists & the group of Astronomers have observed the alien planet using the gravitational microlensing technique. This means that the scientists watched how the dwarf star and the Super-Earth warped and magnified light. The technique is used by aligning the telescope in a certain way that a large object and a target are lined up properly so that the light coming from the target becomes warped due to the presence of the large object. However, this is considered to be an extremely rare event. A statement released by the University of Canterbury in New Zealand also said that this is a 'one in a million' occurrence.
Dim Dwarf Stars -Dwarf star, any star of average or low luminosity, mass, and size. Important subclasses of dwarf stars are white dwarfs and red dwarfs. Dwarf stars include so-called main-sequence stars, among which is the Sun.But the super earth has been orbiting around a brown dwarf which is a very rare cosmic findings
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| An artist presentation based on light intensity of brown dwarfs |
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an intermediate-mass brown dwarf orbiting a young star about 841 light-years from Earth on Oct 7,2019. Named TOI-503b, the object is the first brown dwarf discovered by TESS.
Brown dwarfs are cool, dim objects that have a size between that of a gas giant, such as Jupiter or Saturn, and that of a Sun-like star.Sometimes called failed stars, they are too small to sustain hydrogen fusion reactions at their cores, yet they have star-like attributes.
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