Another exoplanet larger than Earthorbiting a red dwarf star, GJ 740, 36 light-years from our planet, Spanish scientists have discovered.
The super-Earth has a mass about three times that of the Earth and completes an orbit around its star in just 2.4 days (the length of the exoplanet year). Due to the proximity of super-Earth to our planet, this exoplanet is expected to be the target of future observations with the new very large terrestrial and space telescopes under development.
Researchers at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, according to AMPE, estimate that the new exoplanet is rocky with a radius about one and a half times that of Earth. Probably in the same stellar system is a second largest exoplanet with a mass similar to Saturn (close to 100 Earth masses).
In recent years astronomers have been searching exoplanets par excellence around relatively cold red dwarfs, which have temperatures of at least 2,000 degrees lower than our Sun.
(Image source: AMPE)
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