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June 16 , 2020
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- A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen (Germany), the Sonneberg Observatory, the University of Göttingen, the University of California, and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), have discovered a new planet by using Kepler Space Telescope.
- It is named KOI-456.04 & its host star called Kepler-160.
- The massive exoplanet KOI-456.04 orbits its star located some 3,000 light-years away from the Earth.
- It is less than twice the size of Earth.
- It takes approximately 378 days to complete one orbit.
- The star Kepler-160 has at least three planets in its orbit & emits visible light, which is something that most exoplanets’ stars don’t do.
- This is significant because most exoplanets’ stars tend to be small and fainter than the Sun and mostly emit infrared radiation – belonging to the ‘red dwarf’ classification of stars.
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