Походни екзопланети, по-често срещани в Cosmos: проучване

Астрономите са разкрили, че суперземните екзопланети са по-често срещани във вселената, в сравнение с се смяташе до момента. has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought, according to a new study.

By studying light anomalies made by the newly found planet's host star and combining their results with a larger sample from a KMTNet microlensing survey, the team found that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun, said Andrew Gould, co-author of the study and Професор Emeritus of Astronomy в държавния университет в Охайо.

" Учените знаеха, че има повече дребни планети, в сравнение с огромни планети, само че в това изследване успяхме да покажем, че в границите на този общ модел има остатък и недостиг ", сподели той. " It's very interesting. "

While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to detect.

Still, researchers further estimated that for every three stars, there should be at least one super-Earth present with a Jupiter-like orbital period, suggesting these massive worlds are extremely prevalent across the universe, said Gould, whose early theoretical research helped develop the field of planetary microlensing.

The findings in this study were made via microlensing, an observational effect that occurs when the presence of mass warps the fabric of space-time to a detectable degree.

When a foreground object, such as a star or planet, passes between an observer and a more distant star, light is curved from the source, causing an apparent Увеличаване на яркостта на обекта, което може да продължи от няколко часа до няколко месеца.

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