In today's article, we are going to talk about 2 planets from the Earth size. Astronomers have long used telescopes to look for signs of planets beyond our tiny corner of the earth. universe.
In their searches, astonishingly, they confirmed that there are more than five thousand known celestial body systems beyond our own. Solar system! The subject is extensive and has many other curiosities. Let's go to the planets.
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Such planets – called exoplanets – are very difficult to photograph due to the fact that they are so far away from Earth. However, scientists know the signals and can pinpoint them, looking for wobbles in stars as planets in orbits use their gravitational pull or dips in starlight as planets pass in front of their hosts stars.
Check out the new discoveries of the astronomers:
The James Webb Space Telescope has the ability to look inside the atmospheres of planets potentially habitable and discover new worlds and is widely used by astronomers with this purpose. In 2021, the telescope confirmed the existence of an exoplanet, known as LHS 475 b and characterized by being almost exactly the same size as Planet Earth. The celestial body is located 42 light years away, in the constellation Octans. The telescope, despite not being able to discover whether the exoplanet had an atmosphere, captured a variety of molecules and will have another mission to observe the planet and build new data about the same.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission NASA, also known as TESS, has discovered a second exoplanet in a planetary system 100 light-years away. The newly discovered world is the size of planet Earth and most surprising of all is that it could still be potentially habitable!
