New evidence of giant gas planet around ‘Earth’s closest solar twin’
Astronomers found the strong evidence of a giant gas planet in the orbit of a star in a solar system close to our own sun.
Alpha Centauri Triple-Star system, four light years away from the Earth, has been a long-standing target for scientists to search for worlds outside our solar system. Now, scientists have found a lifeless planet that could be a neighbor close to the world with astronomical terms and even have months of life.
Potential planetary follow -up last year disappeared in follow -up observations. But astronomers found new signs using NASA’s powerful James Webb space telescope.
If confirmed, the planet would be closest to the world in orbit in the livable area of a sun -like star.
Prof. Dr. Oxford University Space Instrumentation Associate Professor “Four years is a long way, but in terms of galaxy, very close – in our neighborhood,” Carly Howett said.
“This is really important if we want to think about livable worlds.”
However, since the planet candidate is a gas giant, scientists say that as we know, they will not support life.
Charles Beichman from the NASA Exolet Institute at NASA’s Jet drive laboratory and Caltech’s IPAC Astronomy Center will offer our best opportunity to collect data other than ourselves in any outside planetary systems.
“Nevertheless, these are incredibly challenging observations even in the world’s most powerful space telescope, because these stars are very bright, close and moving quickly in the sky,” he added.
Stars create large amounts of bright light that can prevent nearby objects, which can explain why the potential planet has lost.
Beichman added: “Webb was designed and optimized to find the farthest galaxies in the universe. The operation team of the Telescope Science Institute had to find a special observation series for this goal and the extra efforts were paid in a great way.”
The potential planet’s confirmation would mark a new milestone for the outer planetary imaging efforts, because it would be closest to the star to be seen so far.
In two articles covering the team’s research, Aniket Sanghi, a PhD student from Caltech, said, “It is also the most similar to the giant planets in our solar system and the giant planets closest to our home.” He said. He said: “The presence of a two -star system separated closely will challenge our understanding of how to create, survive and develop the planets in chaotic environments.”
Astronomers will be released until May 2027, and hopes to use NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, a new telescope equipped with special equipment to test new technologies in search of new life.
