Earthlike New Planet gliese 581 g discovered
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Astronomers have identified a new planet orbiting a red-dwarf star called Gliese 581, located 20 light years from Earth in the constellation Libra, that might have liquid water on its surface.
If they are accurate, this would be the first new planet found on the outside our solar system that would be capable of sustaining life ?X or at least life as we notice it.
The sighting was announced this moment in a news announced in the Astrophysical Journal by Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at U.C. Santa Cruz, and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
It was based on 11 years worth of observations through the HIRES spectrometer at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
Vogt and Butler as a matter of fact found two new planets orbiting Gliese 581, which brings the total to six so far.
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