Discover two planets From the “super-Earth” – one of which can accommodate the conditions necessary for life – orbiting a star 100 light-years away, RT reported.
LP 890-9 hosts two exoplanets: LP 890-9b and LP 890-9c, the first of which was first captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
It was marked using the SPECULOOS telescopes, one working at the University of Birmingham, which then located the other planet.
LP 890-9b is regarding 30% larger than Earth and completes an orbit around the star in just 2.7 days.
However, LP 890-9c is regarding 40% larger than Earth and has a longer orbital period of regarding 8.5 days – putting it in the “habitable zone” around its star.
The goal of SPECULOOS is to search for terrestrial planets outside our solar system and the conditions that would enable them to sustain life.
