An international team of astronomers has discovered an Earth-like planet, which has a temperature that would allow liquid water on its surface.
“This rocky world is a bit more massive than Earth and is the closest to us exoplanet and can also be the closest planet that can support life outside our solar system,” said the European Southern Observatory, from whose telescopes experts have identified the planet.
Next b orbits every eleven days around Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf is the nearest star to the Sun and the possibility of life on planets around this type stars is the subject of debate among the international scientific community, explains Peter J. Amado, the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia.
“to talk about life on the level of knowledge we have on the planet is going too far “because, among other things, that a planet has a temperature on its surface that allows liquid water-which makes possible the emergence of life at least as conocemos- an atmosphere that protects and hot is needed.”
If the new planet had no atmosphere with gases that produce greenhouse “would be enough to heat the little extra that need its surface so that the water was liquid” according to Amado, who points out that you also have to demonstrate, therefore, there is ice on this celestial body.
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