LHS 475 b Exoplanet.

About LHS 475 b

• Researchers have labelled the new exoplanet as LHS 475 b, and it’s roughly the same size as Earth, the agency added.
• It is located just 41 light-years away, the planet orbits very close to a red dwarf star and completes a full orbit in just two days.

What are Exoplanets?

• These are planets that orbit other stars and are beyond our solar system.
• Exoplanets come in a host of different sizes. They can be gas giants bigger than Jupiter or as small and rocky as Earth. 
• They are also known to have different kinds of temperatures; boiling to cold.
• Scientists rely on indirect methods to discover exoplanets such as the transit method, which is “measuring the dimming of a star that happens to have a planet pass in front of it”
• Scientists believe that there are more planets than stars as each star has at least one planet orbiting it.
• Studying exoplanets not only broadens our understanding of other solar systems but also helps us piece together information about our planetary system and origin

Q1) What is the GROWTH Telescope?

It is India’s first robotic telescope which is located in Hanle, Ladakh and designed to observe transient events in the universe that has started observing the skies.

Source: James Webb telescope discovers its first Earth-sized exoplanet: What are exoplanets?

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