One year lasts 20 days, planet discovered 20 times larger than Earth

The planet is baptized with the appointment of the PIC 211945201b, or K2-236b, and is quite large, about 27 times larger than Earth. This discovery puts India among the few countries that confirm the existence of a planet outside our solar system.

Exoplanting is not a innovation in our day. In fact, more than 3700 have been confirmed, most of them have been discovered and confirmed by the Kepler telescope of Nassa.

This planet was recently discovered by Kepler as a candidate for the plans, but it was the team of Indian scientists who confirmed the existence of the planet and not a comet or any astronomical object.

Experts took a year and a half at PRL's Gurushikhar Observatory in Mount Abu, India, studying the light changes coming from the planet's star and confirming its mass.

The planet orbits a star similar to the sun, but it is 7 times closer to its star than the Earth and the sun, which means that the temperature can reach 600 oC and even very hot and dry for life.

As a result, a year on this planet lasts approximately 19.5 days. There is a measure about 27 times the size of the earth and it is estimated that the ray is 6 times larger. However, the photometric data of the K2 did not provide natural planetary confirmation of this system, so an independent assessment of the measure was necessary for this discovery that was made by spectrographer P ARAS.

Although the possibilities of finding signs of life are few for K2-236b, astronomers signal that finding it is very significant because it helps astronomers find more details about how planets such as Neptune or Saturn are able to form so close to their star. / world.al