Scientists Find Super-Earth Planet, Habitable?

JAKARTA - Researchers have found a super-Earth planet orbiting the red dwarf constellation called GJ-740. This star is cooler than the sun. Surface temperatures are in the range of 2,400 to 3,700 kelvins. That means 2,000 degrees cooler than the sun.

The word red also has a smaller size than the Sun, between 0.08 and 0.45 solar masses. The star GJ-740 is about 36 light years from Earth. This star has a Super-Earth planet with a very fast orbit, as reported by SlashGear.

This Super-Earth is able to circle its sun in just 2.4 days. A red dwarf is smaller than the sun and if it has three times the mass of the Earth. Scientists believe it is very likely that this Super-Earth circulatory system will be subject to intensive research in the future.

Astronomers will study the star using state-of-the-art telescopes so that they can study red dwarfs and super-Earth planets in depth. This is because the super-Earth planet has a very close position to the sun in the cosmic scheme, in terms of the planet's orbit is also very close to the red dwarf star's sun.

Scientists reveal that the super-Earth planet has the second shortest orbital time of its star that researchers have detected. Its mass and orbital period show that super-Earth is a rocky planet with a radius about 1.4 times that of Earth.

They are optimistic that various information regarding the details of the planet can be collected in the future through in-depth observations via the TESS satellite.

The super-Earth planet was discovered using the radial velocity method. The method is based on detecting small variations in star speed due to the gravitational pull of planets orbiting around them. To date, there are 116 planets outside the solar system that have been discovered using this method.