Is there life outside our earth? Researchers have been working on this question for centuries. An international team of scientists has now discovered an exoplanet that has been removed nearly 2500 light years, which has a really amazing similarity with our earth – an “Earth 2.0”.
The planet called Kepler-735C in the so-called habitable zone revolves around a sun-like star and is about 2470 light years away from us. The Super Earth, who circles their central gesture in 207.5 days, found German and Chinese astronomers.
About ten times the soil on earth
Kepler 725C is larger than the earth, but smaller than the planet Neptune, has about ten times the ground mass and according to the researchers, liquid water could possibly have. However, the scientists have not been able to determine life. Further research should now clarify whether the exoplanet has an atmosphere.
Due to the great distance, the Kepler 735C exoplanet cannot be observed immediately, but it was indirectly demonstrated – using the SO -driven transit variation (TTV). It was the first time that a potentially habitable planet could be proven with this procedure, reports Chinese researcher Sun Leilei.
“Kepler” found thousands of planetary candidates
The Kepler 735 system was discovered in 2016 with the help of the “Kepler” space observatory (named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler; Note) started looking for a “second earth” in March 2009.
With the help of a 95 megapixel camera, “Kepler” has observed more than 150,000 stars in the constellation Swan and thousands of planetary candidates detected in other stars, but a large part still has to be confirmed.
Source: Krone
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