Superter GJ 3998 D, 59 light years from Earth.
It is the “only” 59 light years from Earth and has the size of the blue planet. Its rocky nature can make you suitable for lifelong lifelong.
In the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf, an international team of scientists discovered a Super Earth orbit at Earth’s 59-year-old.
The Planet, which received the name Gj 3998 dis the third to be discovered in this system in the GJ 3998 area, one of the nearest stars of the sun. It is a super terra with a mass 6 times higher than that of Earth and is in an area where conditions may allow liquid water to exist on its surface.
The planet, according to the study of the team led by Atanas Stefanov, a student from the Institute of Astrophysics of Canaryes (IAC), and this Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics, orbit your star every 41.8 days e receives only 20% more sterling sunstroke From what the earth receives from the sun, which makes it a strong candidate for studies of future habitability of humanity.
Despite the differences in the earth, the rocky nature of the planet can make it suitable for lifelong lifelong, for which liquid water is a fundamental requirement.
“Although it is certainly different from Earth, if the planet is rocky, it may be able to host liquid water to its surface, one of the main requirements for life,” confirms Jonay I. González Hernández, IAC researcher and study co -author.
GJ 3998 D “gives us one more reason to continue to look for habitable planets around us,” said Stefanov in from IAC. The proximity of the system makes GJ 3998 d a Excellent target for atmospheric studiesparticularly with the next concert Andes in Extremély Large Telescope (ELT) and the Exo Life Finder telescope (ELF), which may allow scientists to investigate the planet’s atmosphere in search of signs of oxygen and potential bioassine.
The Red Dwarf GJ 3998 is a relatively star small and coldwhich makes your habitable zone closer to the star than the Sun and offers us a unique opportunity to study planets in habitable red dwarf zones, which are the most common type of star in our galaxy.
In this case, the team used concert hars-N on the Galileo national telescope (TNG) in La Palma to detect subtle fluctuations in the star’s movement, which indicates the presence of planets.
But to tell the whole story of this planet you need to retreat to one of 2016 that revealed the existence of two planets in the system. Now the new signal detected in the latest data has led to new observations and confirmation of GJ 3998 d.
In total, the system now has three known planets.
