Habitable planet outside our solar system: A Super Earth 4 times larger than our planet
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Researchers have made an extremely important discovery by finding a Super Earthlocated just 14 light years away from our Sun. Wolf 1061c is officially the closest habitable planet outside of our solar system and has a mass four times larger than that of Earth. According to astronomers, Wolf 1061c sits within the habitable zone which means that it’s very likely that the planet has liquid water and the necessary conditions to support life as we know it. While researchers have found in the past planets that are much closer than Wolf 1061c, those planets are not considered as candidates to be habitable according to astronomers.
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A simulation of the orbital configuration of the Wolf 1061 system. The orbits for the planets b, c and d (ordered from the inner planet to the outer) have periods of 4.9 days, 17.9 days and 67.2 days. In the simulation we show the planet orbits as all lying in a single plane. The planetary habitable zone around the star is marked in green – the colours grade from red (where a planet would be too hot), through green (where the surface of a planet could sustain liquid water), through to blue (where a planet would be too cold).
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This Super Earth is the closest potentially habitable planet discovered outside of our solar system and increases the hopes of discovering in the near future a planet that could have developed life on its surface.
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