Corot 9b, New Planet Similar Jupiter

Search for alien planets outside our solar system, entering a new phase with the discovery of Jupiter sized planets around cooler stars. This conclusion is expected to help researchers discover what lies beyond our solar system.

“This is the first planet outside of what we can learn in depth,” said Claire Moutou, one of 60 astronomers who participated in the opening. “This could be a stone Rosette in the search field of the outer planets.”

More than 400 planets detected since 1995. Still, no one really looks like our Earth, in the sense that can support life. Most of the world’s giant ball of gas like Jupiter and is located very close to the central star, so that the temperature of combustion to a thousand degrees Celsius and above.

Although new data is called COROT-9B relatively cold, with surface temperatures from 160 to -20 degrees Celsius. Planets orbit stars within 95 days is in the constellation of the snake or serpent. For comparison, Mercury orbits around the Sun once in 88 days.

For more information about COROT-9B show immediately receive from the investigators. The reason this planet was only one of 70 eminent persons from the outer planets (transit) from the central star by a telescope on Earth. This alignment makes the star light can penetrate the planet’s atmosphere and looks from Earth. Based on what I saw, the researchers were able to find a planet the size and chemical composition.

Another encouraging, this time the transit of the planet to achieve eight hours, so a lot of time for astronomers to watch.