A newly found 'super' Earth only takes 2.4 days to complete a year
A newly found ‘super’ Earth only takes 2.4 days to complete a year Prabhjote GillApr 17, 2021, 13:29 IST Artist's impression of the super Earth in orbit round the red dwarf star GJ-740Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) A new found ‘super Earth’ has been discovered 36 light years from Earth. A year on the planet would only be two days, nine hours and thirty minutes long in Earth terms. It is the second shortest orbit of any planet detected around a red dwarf so far.Establishing human life on another planet may seem like a dream that’s far away, but astronomers are already on the hunt fo...
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