Of the 104 new exoplanets that are open with the help of the Kepler telescope, 2 may have conditions hospitable to life.
Space telescope Kepler was able to find 197 new candidate exoplanet in the framework of the mission K2. An international team of astronomers has confirmed that 104 of them are indeed planets.
Planets orbit around the dwarf star K2-72 remote from the Earth at a distance of 181 light-year in the direction of the constellation of Aquarius. The star is about half the Sun’s not so bright.
In General the diameter of the planets by 20-50% larger than the diameter of the Earth, and they are located quite close to their star. Full revolution around her, they commit a maximum of 24 days. Of the more than 100 new extrasolar planets 4 can be rocky worlds in the likeness of our.
Two of them are in the habitable zone where water can exist in liquid state. Although they are located in relation to their star closer than mercury to the Sun, K2-72 is not so large and less warm than ours, and the zone of habitability her closer. So scientists do not exclude the possibility that these planets could form conditions for the origin of life.
New planets were discovered using the space telescope Kepler, but their status was confirmed through observations with ground telescopes, located in Hawaii, California and Arizona.
