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 diminutive person toward the heavenly body of Aries, as indicated by the examination 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, researchers said.
Despite the fact that it is so close to, its faintness hindered its disclosure until 2003.
“We have been observing this star for three years to look for periodic variations in its velocity,” said Mathias Zechmeister, a researcher 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 ‘tenable zone’ where water can exist as a fluid, as per the specialists.
“It is possible that the two planets are part of a larger system,” said Stefan Dreizler, a scientist at the University of Gottingen.
Photometric battles on this star have been done with the Carlos Sanchez Telescope at the Teide Observatory in Spain, and with the system of telescopes of the Las Cumbres Observatory, among others.
“These studies demonstrate that the signals of the two planets cannot be due to the activity of the star, even though we could not detect the transits of the two new planets,” said Victor Sanchez Bejar, from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) in the Canary Islands.
For the travel technique to be practical, the planets must go over the essence of the excellent circle and square a portion of the light from the star during a brief timeframe, which implies that it must lie on a line joining the Sun and the Earth.
This fortunate arrangement happens for just a little division of planetary frameworks, analysts said.
The kind of star to which the Teegarden star has a place comprises of the littlest for which analysts can gauge the majority of their planets with current innovation.
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