Astronomers have discovered a parallel universe with a temperature that may also be similar to our planet.
The New Star // Imaging: NASA
It is only 300 light years away, but is probably one of the most similar planets to Earth found by scientists here. Meet Kepler-1649c, a 6 percent larger planet than our planet, discovered by a team of international scientists who once again relayed NASA's data from the 2018 Telescope Kepler observations and space photographs.
Kepler-1649c revolves around a red dwarf that gives it about 75 percent of the amount of light our planet receives, and it rotates every 19.5 days. Scientists say this is a distance that allows water to exist in a liquid state and other life-giving conditions, and that the temperature on the planet is the same as our sphere.
Those who are very excited about the discovery are Thomas Zurbach, senior director of NASA's Washington Information Director, who says that "the discovery of such a star on Earth gives us hope that such and such stars are found in Kepler's data, as well as data from the current TESS operation (Kepler's replacement that was launched in 2018) for finding space-like planets in space. I am sure that with the tools the scientific community has today and when we know what to look for, more and more exciting discoveries of this kind will emerge in the future. "
As mentioned, what is special about the current planet discovered is its equal size to Earth, a necessary condition for gravity as we know it, its distance from its small sun which is in the range necessary for the existence of life and the fact that the tests indicate that it is a rocky celestial.
However, since it is a very distant star that is not very bright, the scientists still do not know if it has an atmosphere. In addition, being around a red dwarf raises the question of what kind of life can exist because red dwarfs have properties that also include bursts of energy that can damage or affect the planet's life system if such a system exists.
As mentioned earlier, the present discovery was already in 2018 within Kepler's observational data, but because of the complexity of finding planets the algorithm that the scientists of the artificial intelligence software that scanned the data missed the star. The problem facing the algorithm is whether a particular spot that interferes with space is a planet or other disturbance of light, along with the need to identify different types of solar interference and massive data processing. As a result, this kind of streak of stars around bright suns, such as our sun, was to be expected and so a large team of scientists moved again after testing the algorithm.
"We found a few other planets with potential, but what is special about Kepler-1649c is that it really incorporates all the necessary conditions for life as we know them," said Andrew Vanderburg, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. "Red dwarf suns are the most commonly found Sabbath stars in the universe and as we are able to view more space with precise instruments we are seeing more and more planets orbiting them. Therefore, the chances of finding a planet that can be settled and sustain life look much greater than we do today." , Andrew Vanderburg concludes.