After four years ago astronomers located a potentially habitable planet they called Proxima b and revolves around the Proxima Centauri star, experts now believe they have hints of having found a second world with these characteristics.
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The new planet is also part of the system that orbits around that star, which is the closest to our Sun and is 4.2 light years from Earth. This could mean that within that planetary system there is a possibility that there are more potentially habitable places, such as the new finding of what they have called the ‘super Earth’.
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According to information published by CNNAfter the first discovery, the researchers used a wide variety of Atacama millimeters and sub millimeters telescopes in Chile to track light signals that seemed to come from that direction.
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According to a study published by the journal Science Advances, through a radial velocity method, experts were able to see more than 17 years of data from the star system and determine if the signal belonged to a planet in orbit.
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According to the study, although researchers cannot rule out that the signal is due to the activity of the star’s magnetic field, the information collected was produced over a period of 1,900 days, which could be a strong indicator that a planet is present. .
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Experts have pointed out that this possible second planetary discovery has been called super Earth as it could be a mass larger than our planet, but smaller than Uranus and they calculate that it completes its orbit every 5.2 Earth years.
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For its part, the Proxima b, is six times smaller and is 30 times closer to its star, Proxima Centauri, which coexists with a binary star in Alpha Centauri, and is a red dwarf star of low mass of class M.
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