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Offline kevindavis007

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15 New Exoplanets Are Discovered Including One 'Super Earth' That Could Be Habitable
« on: March 12, 2018, 11:56:30 pm »

There are 15 new exoplanets were discovered by a research team in Tokyo. Those 15 exoplanets were confirmed to have 3 super-Earths, of those three super-Earths one is confirmed to be in the star's habitable zone.

Chances of finding alien life in new exoplanets discovered keep increasing as more exoplanets are found that may have the right conditions.

K2-155d
A team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences confirmed the existence of 15 exoplanets that are orbiting red dwarf stars. K2-155 is one of the brighter red dwarfs, it is around 200 light years away from Earth.

K2-155's system includes three super-Earths, the super-Earth orbiting the furthest away from the star could be within its habitable zone. K2-155d had a radius that is 1.6 times larger than that of Earth.


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Re: 15 New Exoplanets Are Discovered Including One 'Super Earth' That Could Be Habitable
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2018, 01:16:04 am »
These planets are in tidally locked orbits around a red dwarf. Very unlikely to be habitable. If it still has an atmosphere, then it is probably a super Venus, not a super Earth.
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Re: 15 New Exoplanets Are Discovered Including One 'Super Earth' That Could Be Habitable
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2018, 11:45:57 am »
I wish I lived there instead of here.

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Re: 15 New Exoplanets Are Discovered Including One 'Super Earth' That Could Be Habitable
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2018, 03:07:15 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on March 12, 2018, 11:56:30 pm
A team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Tokyo Institute of Technology... great discovery, even better acronym!
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Re: 15 New Exoplanets Are Discovered Including One 'Super Earth' That Could Be Habitable
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2018, 04:13:14 pm »
Quote from: Ghost Bear on March 14, 2018, 03:07:15 pm
Tokyo Institute of Technology... great discovery, even better acronym!
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