Earth-like planets may be closer than previously thought


A recent scientific study conducted by scientists specialists detect rocky planets that are expected to be inhabited like Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, he is not supposed to be this very distant planets us as astronomers believe, but can rotate these planets about "dwarf red "Red Dwarf at a distance of about 13 light-years all the earth.
 
American astronomer from the University of "Harvard" Harvard Astronomer and President of the scientific team, "Courtney Drisng" Courtney Dressing who presented the paper to this study, they believed that rocky planets like Earth exist on very long distances from us, but we have reached recently in this study suggests that rocky planets Earth-like at intervals very close to us, and you need only to those who discover these planets.

Astronomers adopted in their accounts on photos taken earlier from the U.S. Space Telescope "Kepler" Kepler focusing on the search for an answer to the question, which he says can be no life on the surface of planets orbiting a red dwarf.

Described as the stars of the type red dwarfs as weaker and smaller and cooler than our sun, which N'Dour around, and there are red dwarfs in abundance in our galaxy are comprising three out of four stars that most of the stars of our galaxy of type red dwarfs.

Monitoring Space Telescope in our galaxy approximately 158 thousand star, and building on the analysis conducted by the astronomer "Drisng" and his colleagues have been identified 95 planets Ceara orbiting stars red dwarf, but the majority of these planets do not have qualities near recipes planet in order to be environment suitable for life in terms of size and temperature, and based on this study the 95 planets have been identified, only three of them have recipes close to the planet, which can be life too!

Based project on the study of 75 billion dwarf star red in our Milky Way galaxy, where the study showed that about only 6 percent of these stars could revolve around rocky planets like the Earth, and the nearest of these stars from Earth about 13 years, illuminated only, these results mean that the process search for planets suitable for life outside our solar system much easier than we expected previously, the Sunnis optical Light Year equivalent of 5.8 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers) or 9.46 million million kilometers, the distance light travels in a year one floor in 456 days and almost a quarter of a day, knowing that the light cut per second 300 thousand kilometers revolves around the Earth about 8 times per second. And the presence of a red dwarf 13 light-years is very close by cosmic standards, but is like a picnic!

 Scientists believe that the area habitable habitable zone are at a distance of 300-600 light years from Earth, in terms of monitoring space telescope "Kepler" Most dwarfs Rouge, which revolve around planets rocky like Earth and environment is also suitable for the emergence of life and durability, can also provide water that is From the basics of the existence of life.

The characteristics astronomical that are characterized by the stars of the type dwarfs Rouge enable astronomers to detect planets around easily, through the spots dark small that appear during the passage of the planet in front of the star for us, and to monitor this phenomenon has demanded astronomers use network telescopes astronomical big large network of ground-based on the ground in addition to space telescopes orbiting the Earth outside its gaseous.




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