In December 2015, a research team from the University of Australia in New South Wales announced the discovery of three rocky planets orbiting the star Wolf 1061. It turned out that one of these planets, called Wolf 1061c, is located in the habitable zone, which is sometimes called the 'Goldilocks zone' .
The rocky world Wolf 1061 falls into the potentially habitable Goldilocks zone, and the planet is at a fairly close distance to its star.
Two years after astronomers discovered the 'super-Earth', other scientists have conducted a study of the possible finding of life on it. It turned out that located about 14 light years from Earth, Wolf 1061c is comparable in its parameters to our planet, but is somewhat inferior in this respect to the exoplanet Proxima Centauri B, discovered in August 2016, the nearest rocky exoplanet 4 light years from Earth.
Finds of such 'terrestrial-like' worlds have raised hopes among scientists to discover life outside our solar system. However, after observing Wolf 1061c in more detail, some astronomers had doubts about whether it would be possible to find it at all in this area.
“The planet is close enough to the parent facility Wolf 1061, which means there is a strong greenhouse effect possible,” Professor Stephen Kane, an astrophysicist at the University of San Francisco, told Sci News on Friday.
Sources: csmonitor
