A new habitable exoplanet has been discovered in the habitable area, it is in the habitable area and has characteristics to be habitable, that is, to be able to have life, the discovery was made by a team of researchers from the University of Montreal, the images shown are an illustration, unfortunately, we do not have such a wonderful photo of this exoplanet.
You could have a photo this wonderful if we had a telescope that worked with a gravitational lens, there was a project to create that which does not require sophisticated technology, it would be to use the gravitational lens effect of the Sun, the problem is that you have to send the telescope to an enormous distance, like 10 times further than Pluto is, but technology we would have to do it and if that were done, we could see those exoplanets as we can see Venus, for example, or Mars, that is, we would see them as a little ball and we could even see if they have continents, but well, at the moment we cannot see in that detail, although we have the James Web that could detect the atmosphere of this exoplanet.
It was announced on July 22, it is a rocky world located just 35 light years from Earth, if it is millions of years to reach it, we already know that it is far, that now we do not have the technology to travel there, but it is not too far. Two, we are in the era of discovering those planets, no one can take that away from us, that is as if we said to Galileo Galilei when he set up his telescope and discovered the large moons of Jupiter, you couldn't go there, now you can.
Now we have it, we are discovering exoplanets at a good rate, it is the era of discovering exoplanets, we are the first to do so in the history of humanity, being able to reach this specific one, 35 light years away, I don't know if one day we will discover some way to travel faster than light, but we could create ships, not in too much technological time, perhaps within a century, that can reach a fraction of the speed of light, with which we could create, for example, ships where humans They were in hibernation or in suspended animation or sleeping, on a trip that could last 35 light years plus acceleration plus braking, let's say 150 years or 200 years and waking up when they get there they would be colonizing ships, there is no other option, a one-way trip.
Within a century perhaps it could be considered whether this planet meets the conditions to be habitable for us and in principle yes, it is orbiting a red dwarf star, red dwarfs are unstable, they have problems, but not all,
There are some that are quite stable and this one is also one of the large ones, it has approximately 32% of the mass of the sun, which is a respectable size and it belongs to a type of red dwarf, because there are several types that are quite stable, which is quite conducive to life.
As for the star, it is a matter of investigation, there is debate and the estimates vary enormously, I have found estimates that range from 800 million years, which would be a fairly young system, to an age similar to that of the sun, 4.6 billion years, even with 800 million years, if life arose on this planet, it is a sufficient margin for life to have arisen.
What is much clearer is that orbiting this star there are three small exoplanets discovered in 2019 with NASA's test space telescope. There is a fourth planet identified by radial velocity with the express spectrograph of the Southern European Observatory.
The researchers analyzed a lot of data and specifically they have analyzed the characteristics of the planets, the one closest to the star has only 84% of the diameter of the Earth and approximately half the mass of the Earth, this means that it is much larger than Mars, but smaller than Venus, the two planets closest to the star could be experiencing, well, intense volcanic activity, but they would be hot.
As for the third, eh, which is quite interesting, surprising for its low density, it is suggested, according to astronomers, that it could be an ocean planet rich in water, for the fourth there is little data and the most interesting thing is this latest exoplanet that they have discovered, the fifth which is called L9859 f, takes a year or what it orbits its star in 23 days, the planet receives an amount of energy comparable to what the Earth receives from the Sun, it is therefore in the right area, in the temperate zone or habitable zone of its star system, that is, where water could exist in a liquid state on the surface of a planet, as long as it had the appropriate atmospheric pressure, of course.
If it does not have an atmosphere, then bad, but if it has this size, it is normal for it to have an atmosphere and if its star is stable, it is normal for it to maintain it, and ideally it would also have a magnetic field. We don't know. Maybe with web JS or in the future with some new technology we could find out.
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