Scientists of NASA found another Earth-like planet. Photo Courtesy – Space.com
NASA found another Earth-like planet. The planet is bigger than our Earth but it is almost like the primitive stage of the Earth. It revolves around a star like our sun. The star is also bigger than our sun. The planet was found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is constantly looking for exoplanets or aliens in space. In this TESS mission, an alien-like Earth has been revealed. This new alien planet is now being studied at the American Astronomical Society Conference. Assuming the heat of this planet, it seems that there is no possibility of life here, but the density of this planet is much like that of Earth.
The planet has been orbiting its star in 12 hours or half the time of Earth. Scientists say that the planet still does not have the environment to create life like our Earth. The surface temperature of the planet is about 3,140 degrees Fahrenheit (1,726 degrees Celsius). Life cannot be created in such a hot environment.
Scientists from different countries have been working for the last 20 years in search of exoplanets. Thousands of such planets were also found. However, another 3,500 aliens were discovered in just four years when NASA’s Kepler mission began in the year 2009.
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NASA’s TESS mission discovered a planet similar to Earth last year. The planet is situated 1300 light-years from Earth. According to the TOI 1338 system, the planet is called TOI 1338B. The planet is 6.9 times bigger than the Earth, and almost the size of Saturn. It has two stars. The planet revolves around them in a circular orbit. The planets orbiting two stars are called ‘Circumbinary planets’. It was not possible to know if there was life.
Scientists observed a family of stars called ‘WASP-121’ 60 light-years away from the earth. An alien planet consists of this family with an Earth-like atmosphere. The name of the planet is ‘WASP-121-B’. This planet has a troposphere in the atmosphere, above which is the stratosphere. The presence of water vapour was found there.
Scientists are now exploring the 50 planets that have been discovered. There are planets of different species, different categories in this universe. Some are like Earth (same as Earth), some are smaller (‘Sub-Earth’) than Earth, and some are (‘Super-Earth’) larger than Earth. These super-Earths are more likely to have water and carbon. The temperature of the super-earth is almost the same as the earth. That means there may be a habitable zone or habitable environment of life.
Exoplanet-Hunter of NASA has revealed this planet and it has been mentioned in the Astronomical Journal. Scientists say that the planet is even older than our Milky Way galaxy. It is 50 times larger than Earth and its age is about a billion years. The planet (Super-Earth) is named ‘TOI-581B’.
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