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Astronomers detect identical twin of Jupiter
April 10 , 2022
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- Astronomers have discovered an identical twin of Jupiter dubbed as K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb.
- It has a similar mass of Jupiter.
- It is at a similar location (420 million miles away) from its star as Jupiter is from our Sun (462 million miles away).
- The study has been published as a preprint on ArXiv.org.
- It was submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- The exoplanet is about 17,000 light-years from the Earth, and it was first detected by the Kepler space telescope in 2016.
- To spot the planet, scientists used Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Gravitational Microlensing.
- K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb is the first bound microlensing exoplanet to be discovered from space-based data.
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