Paris, Sep 13: Astronomers today unveiled a haul of more than 50 planets orbiting other stars, including a “super-Earth” which inhabits a zone where, providing conditions are right, water could exist in liquid form.
It is the biggest single tally in the history of exoplanet hunting since the very first world beyond the Solar System was spotted in 1995, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said in a press release.
The planets were detected using a light analyser, or spectrograph, on a 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory in the ultra-dry conditions of Chile’s Atacama desert.
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