1. Earthly Habitable Planets
Found Year: 2017.
It was discovered by Xavier Bonfils.
Place: 11. Years in Light From Earth
As time passes, it’s becoming more and more clear that humanity will eventually have to leave spaceship Earth and locate a distant planet where life exists to call home. This is inevitable, which is why astronomers have been hard at work looking for anything resembling Earth in the night sky.
Planets That Are Habitable ©Shutterstock/Darryl Fonseka
A potential “new Earth” (Ross 128 b) was discovered in 2017 by Xavier Bonfils utilising data on radical velocity spanning more than a decade and located 11 light-years away. The only facts about Ross 128 b that are known for certain are that it has a mass of around 1.35 times that of Earth and receives 38% more light from its red dwarf than does Earth from the sun.
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