ESO/L. Calçada
In the unending search for another pile of floating rock as stocked with intriguing features as our very own earth, a Super Earth has been sighted 40 light years away. The new planet is suspected of housing water and it’s close enough that astronomers will be able to observe its atmospheric properties.
The find was made by the MEarth project, an Arizona undertaking that replaces the high-tech hardware often associated with space observation in favor of a team of small, independently adjustable telescopes pointed at a collection of M-dwarf stars.
The MEarth team was able to locate the planet due to shifting luminosity of one of the M-dwarfs and then notified another observation team at HARPS project, which was able to hone in on the planet and provide an estimate of its mass–6.55 times that of Earth. More importantly, the estimate of density indicates that the planet is less than half as dense as Earth, suggesting the presence of water
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