CALIFORNIA - Researchers find exoplanets with the code name of KOI-314C within 200 light-years from Earth. Alien planet has a mass similar to Earth, but in fact is a gas planet.Reported TheRegister, Tuesday (01/07/2014), these findings revealed by researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The newly discovered planet has a diameter 60 percent larger than the Earth's diameter.
According to researchers, the size of the larger diameter indicates that the planet has an atmosphere that is very thin gas. A smaller planet is generally rocky, while the large planet has a high gas content.
KOI-314C moves with orbiting stars 'red dwarf' every 23 days. The temperature of the planet is extremely hot with temperatures of more than 104 centigrade. Researchers revealed that this temperature was too hot to support the emergence of life.
Although it says is a gas planet, astronomers estimate that this exoplanet was solid. KOI-314C is also claimed to be the lightest planet that has measured the mass and physical content.
This planet was discovered by accident through the Kepler data. Or Kepler spacecraft NASA is reportedly looking exomoon, instead of exoplanets.
"Kepler saw two planets transiting in front of the star," said researcher David Nesvormy of the Southwest Research Institute. He said the events of this transiting planet repeated and more detailed observations provide data on the planet's mass.
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