The discovery of two planets orbiting a star 100 light-years away

Two “super-Earths” planets – one of which can accommodate the necessary conditions for life – have been discovered orbiting a star a hundred light-years away.
The star LP 890-9 hosts two exoplanets: LP 890-9b and LP 890-9c, the first of which was first captured by NASA’s TESS Exoplanet Reconnaissance satellite.
It was distinguished using the Speculus telescopes, one working at the University of Birmingham, which then located the other planet.
LP 890-9b is about 30 percent larger than Earth and completes an orbit around the star in just 2.7 days.
However, LP 890-9c is about 40 percent larger than Earth and has a longer orbital period of about 8.5 days, putting it in the “habitable zone” around its star.
According to what was reported by “Russia Today”, the goal of “Spiculos” is to search for terrestrial planets outside our solar system and the conditions that would enable them to sustain life.
“The habitable zone is a concept in which a planet with similar geological and atmospheric conditions to Earth has a surface temperature that allows water to remain liquid for billions of years,” said Professor Amaury Triod, who led the Speculus working group that helped discover the second planet. , and to find out if the planet has an atmosphere, and if so, to study its content and assess its suitability for life.”
The star, also called TOI-4306, is the second coolest planet-host star found after TRAPPIST-1, which hosts seven transiting Earth-sized planets.
LP 890-9b, the system’s inner planet, was identified as a potential candidate planet by TESS as it searches for exoplanets orbiting nearby stars.

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