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Thanks to the data that the specialized NASA’s Kepler Space Laboratory, Japanese astronomers for recently discovered fifteen new exoplanets, practically – 15 new “super-lands.”
All these planets are very similar in size to enlarged copies of our Earth, moreover, they all revolve around their stars at a short distance, so their “year” fits into 1 – 40 earth days.
Unfortunately, the stars of these exoplanets are red dwarfs. However one of the newly discovered exoplanets may well be, as say astronomers, the “sister” of the Earth, albeit somewhat larger size.
Let’s digress a little and explain that red dwarfs are the most common star systems in the universe (at least visible to us). These stars do not exceed one third of our sun, moreover, their light is most often 10 thousand times weaker. True, due to the leisurely combustion of hydrogen of such dwarf stars real centenarians – up to several trillion years, or even more. For example, a red dwarf with a mass of one tenth of the Sun will be smolder in the universe for 10 trillion years.
So, an exoplanet, very similar to the Earth, which the Japanese scientists designated as K2-155d, also rotates near red dwarf K2-155, it is 1.6 times larger than the Earth, located in the central part of the so-called “zone of life”, but most importantly – in its hydrological conditions and climate is close to ours home planet. That is, it may well exist on it biological life. Located K2-155d two hundred light years from Solar system.
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