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RADIO FROM SPACE: NEW EXOPLANET DISCOVERED ONLY 24 TRILLION
MILES AWAY
Scientists using visual and radio telescope data have
discovered the closest planet outside our Solar System. One
that is orbiting a sun-like star about 24 trillion miles
away from Earth.
According to astronomers at the European Southern
Observatory the so-called exoplanet has about the same mass
as Earth but it circles its star much closer than Earth does
the sun, The exoplanet which is described as a planet
outside our Solar System is outside the "habitable zone" for
possible life because of hot and rocky conditions
Temperatures on its surface could reach some 2,200 degrees
and the surface is likely to be lava.
Scientists discovered the planet while monitoring stars in
Alpha Centauri, a neighboring star system, only about four
light years away. That system is peppered with stars
orbiting one another, making the hunt for planets difficult,
astronomers explained.
This is now the closest of more than 840 confirmed
exoplanets. This according to research published in the
British science journal Nature. (Nature)
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