In fact, of the more than 5,000 other planets astronomers have discovered so far, only about 12 could be close to our Earth. However, that number has been increased by another with the discovery of Wolf 1069 b - a planet with a mass similar to Earth and the potential presence of liquid water and an atmosphere - all characteristics that make it a good candidate for further study in the search for signs of life.
Also read: Puerto Rico allocates USD 8 million to rebuild the Arecibo telescope The team that spotted Wolf 1069 works at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg and worked at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain. The researchers used a special spectrographic instrument phone number list developed for the Caremenes project, an initiative to search for Earth-like worlds orbiting M -dwarfs (also known as red dwarfs) - small, cool stars that are the most common type in the Milky Way. Previous research has indicated that red dwarfs may have water-rich planets around them, so the search for Earth-sized worlds around these stars is a logical.
place to start looking for life elsewhere in the galaxy. When we analyzed the data from the star Wolf 1069, we discovered a clear, low-amplitude signal of what appears to be a planet with a mass similar to Earth. It orbits the star in 15.6 days at a distance equivalent to one-fifteenth of The distance between the Earth and the Sun. – said Diana Kossakowski, who led the observation team Wolf 1069 b was also found to be a tidally locked planet, meaning that one side of it always faces the sun, while the other side is permanently dark, just like our moon.
