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Showing posts with label super-Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label super-Earth. Show all posts

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet


Found a planet that can support life on Earth. In addition, it is not so far away newly discovered planet is a so-called super-Earth.

Astronomers led by Mikko Tuomi from the University of Hertfordshire re-analyzed data from the spectrograph HARPS, concerning the star HD 40307 in the constellation Pictoris, and opened just three new planets, one of which is right in the center of the habitable zone lights.