Astronomers have discovered a 'super-Earth' orbiting a red dwarf star just 37 light-years from our solar system.
"To have the very first planet discovered by this new method be so tantalizingly close to the habitable zone seems too good to be true and bodes well for future discoveries," team leader and Tokyo Institute of Technology professor Bun'ei Sato said in a statement .
Massive HIDDEN planet could be lurking inside this 'dusty disk' just 500 lightyears away ...
This is where the gas moves at a different rate than what experts would expect for a smoothly rotating disk, according to AAS Nova .
So a group of scientists decided to look at things differently, to see how the presence of a planet would affect IM Lupi's disk.
Planet 9 is running out of places to hide
Naturally, this motivated folks to search for the world, but it isn't easy. Planet 9 would be too distant to be seen by reflected light, so you'd have to look for it by its faint infrared glow. And with a mass of only five Earths, it wouldn't give off much heat.
To look for distant planets, the team used two infrared sky surveys , one from the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and one from the AKARI Space Telescope.
China plans to view the universe's dark past using a fleet of telescopes orbiting the moon
A team of Chinese scientists have proposed sending a fleet of telescopes to orbit the moon and peek into the most mysterious era of the universe's past.
The Discovering the Sky at the Longest Wavelength (DSL) mission, if officially approved in the coming weeks, would shed light on the so-called cosmic dark ages, a time when the infant universe was nothing but a sea of darkness.
Super-Earth planet zips through the habitable zone of red dwarf star https://t.co/fptGtz7k8X https://t.co/PnyxAqmdbq SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Wed Aug 03 20:03:57 +0000 2022
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