{"id":422,"date":"2024-05-24T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/new-planet-that-could-support-human-life-discovered-close-to-earth-by-uk-scientists\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T00:05:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:05:45","slug":"new-planet-that-could-support-human-life-discovered-close-to-earth-by-uk-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/new-planet-that-could-support-human-life-discovered-close-to-earth-by-uk-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"New planet that could support human life discovered \u2018close\u2019 to Earth by UK scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK scientists have discovered a new planet that could potentially support human life and it isn\u2019t that far away\u2026 relatively speaking.<\/p>\n

The temperature on Gliese 12b is around 42C which means it could be liveable. In fact, it is one of the few known planets where humans could theoretically survive.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019d be uncomfortable for a human but the way we define \u2018habitability\u2019 is that liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet, which in this case it could,\u201d says Larissa Palethorpe from University of Edinburgh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ms Palethorpe and a team of scientists from around the world used NASA\u2019s <\/strong>Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS, to spot the planet orbiting around its star. It took them less than a year to then calculate its size, temperature and how it moves.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmaller planets are really hard to find,\u201d said Ms Palethorpe. \u201cWe want to know more about Earth-sized planets so we can understand how many other Earths are out there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDetecting one so nearby is really exciting because it allows us to do follow up analysis of the atmosphere, so we will be able to learn a lot more about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gliese 12b is relatively close in space terms, at just 40 light years away. However, it\u2019d take our fastest spaceship around 300,000 years to get there currently, according to Ms Palethorpe.<\/p>\n

The planet, which is around the same size as Venus, orbits its sun every 12.8 days. The sun, called Gliese 12, is a cool red dwarf located in the constellation Pisces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe light we are seeing now is from 40 years ago \u2013 that\u2019s how long it has taken to reach us here on Earth,\u201d said Warwick\u2019s Professor Thomas Wilson, who was involved in the discovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlanets like Gliese 12b are few and far between, so for us to be able to examine one this closely and learn about its atmosphere and temperature is very rare.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next step is for the team to examine the planet\u2019s atmosphere and find out whether it is similar to Earth\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could actually be a planet with no atmosphere, which would mean it\u2019s not that habitable,\u201d said Ms Palethorpe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally for habitability, you want a thin atmosphere \u2013 thick-atmosphere planets tend to be too hot. It could be cloud like, it could be hazy, or it could just be no atmosphere at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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