NASA found a Habitable Planet making MARS alternative
A large, potentially habitable planet orbiting a star that may have liquid water on its surface, was discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TES) program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Scientists confirmed the find, called TOI 700 d, with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in the early hours of Wednesday, July 5. The new planet joins other Earth-sized planets discovered by NASA in recent years, including other worlds discovered with the Kepler space telescope, said J PL, a division of the California Institute of Technology.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite searches for exoplanets around stars that are about 60 parseconds from Earth. The TESS satellite allows the satellite to track changes in brightness of stars caused by a planet crossing in front of the star. Astronomers have discovered a world orbiting a bright star 31 miles behind the planet.
The world is known as TOI 700 d and is located in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist. It is known for its proximity to its star and the fact that there is liquid water in the region, according to NASA.
A recent study examined the planet Kepler-69c, which was discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission and was originally thought to be 2700 light-years away but turned out to be just 1,500 light-years from the Earth. The planet is 1.06 times the size of Earth and orbits its star as well.
Astronomers discovered water on the planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a distant star. The analysis showed that this planet lies right on the inner edge of the zone, making it suitable for the presence of liquid water in its atmosphere, according to NASA.
In 10 years, a new space telescope could determine whether the atmosphere of K2–18b contains gas that could be produced by living organisms. The results make this world, as it is called, one of the most habitable planets in the habitable zone of a star.
Since the first discovery in 1993, scientists have confirmed more than two dozen cases, but these circumstances are hard to prove. The discovery was described as “mind-blowing” by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland.
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the European Space Agency’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) have discovered the first transiting exoplanets, or worlds around two stars, reminiscent of the planet Tatooine in Star Wars and welcoming life as we know it. The first was discovered by astronomers with the help of the Transit Ex Planets Survey satellite during its first two years of operation. NASA also announced that TES has discovered a new type of planet in the habitable zone of a star that could provide liquid water.
This is crucial as it could mean that the planet, called TOI 700d, has enough water on its surface, but not too much water.
It also seems that one side of the planet and the other side have eternal sunshine and endless nights. A closer look at the bright star will allow TESS and its ground-based telescope to make further observations to learn more about the atmosphere, which will then be characterized using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other telescopes. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TES) mission is searching for exoplanets orbiting stars in the habitable zone of their host stars.
Astronomers confirmed the existence of a planet in the habitable zone of its host star by observing it with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The discovery is also the first successful discovery of an exoplanet with a habitable planet since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009, and the second in a series of discoveries since NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope launched in 2003.
TOI 700 d is the outermost of the three planets and orbits the star every 37 Earth days. The discovery is exciting for astronomers because a few potentially habitable planets have been discovered outside our solar system, all about half the size of Earth.
A remarkable potentially habitable planet orbiting a red dwarf was found in 2016 when astronomers discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star closest to us. Since then, more have been discovered, including an exoplanet that has been shown to be more than twice the size of the Earth it orbits in its star’s habitable zone. Because of their small stars, these planets receive only a fraction of the energy that the sun supplies to Earth.
For his study, Jeffers used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a popular tool for detecting exoplanets, as well as Doppler measurements, which are used in common techniques to track the movement of a star to track planets orbiting it.
To study the movement of GJ 887, the team observed it for more than two years and collect relevant data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope.
