{"id":4812,"date":"2023-01-16T03:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:04:14","slug":"lhs-475-b-exoplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lhs-475-b-exoplanet\/","title":{"rendered":"LHS 475 b Exoplanet."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About LHS 475 b<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers have labelled the new exoplanet as LHS 475 b, and it\u2019s roughly the same size as Earth, the agency added.<\/li>\n<li>It is located just 41 light-years away, the planet orbits very close to a <strong>red dwarf star<\/strong> and completes a full orbit in just two days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are Exoplanets?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These are planets that orbit other stars and are <strong>beyond our solar system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Exoplanets come in a host of different sizes. They can be gas giants bigger than Jupiter or as small and rocky as Earth.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are also known to have different kinds of temperatures; boiling to cold.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists rely on indirect methods to discover exoplanets such as the <strong>transit method,<\/strong> which is \u201cmeasuring the dimming of a star that happens to have a planet pass in front of it\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Scientists believe that there are more planets than stars as each star has at least one planet orbiting it.<\/li>\n<li>Studying exoplanets not only broadens our understanding of other solar systems but also helps us piece together information about our planetary system and origin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the GROWTH Telescope?<\/h3>\n<p>It is India\u2019s first robotic telescope which is located in Hanle, Ladakh and designed to observe transient events in the universe that has started observing the skies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>James Webb telescope discovers its first Earth-sized exoplanet: What are exoplanets?<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LHS 475 b 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}