An international team of scientists says it has discovered two new “super-Earth” type planets about 100 light-years away, one of which may be suitable for life.
Unlike any of the planets in our solar system, the nearly 1,600 known super-Earths are larger than Earth, but lighter than icy planets like Uranus and Neptune.
Researchers at Belgium’s University of Liège announced Wednesday that they found another one while
using Earth-based telescopes to confirm the existence of a different
planet initially discovered by a NASA satellite in the same solar
system.
NASA’s satellite found planet LP 890-9b, which is about
30% larger than Earth and orbits its sun in just 2.7 days. ULiège
researchers used their SPECULOOS
(Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) telescopes in
Chile and Spain to take a closer look at the planet with high-precision
cameras.
That’s when the stargazers discovered another planet,
LP 890-9c (renamed SPECULOOS-2c by the ULiège researchers), which is
40% larger than Earth and takes 8.5 days to orbit its sun. …
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