Image Credit: ESO
Recently, data from NASA’s Kepler K2’s Campaign 13 has revealed a star called LP 415-17 which contains three orbiting super-Earth exoplanets.
The three massive planets are known as LP 415 B, C, and D which have a trio of radii of 1.8, 2.6 and 1.9 times that of Earth respectively. The star LP 415-17 itself is 58% that of our Sun and has a mass of 65% that of the Sun.
The planets were detected using the transit method in which researchers measured dips in the quantity of light transmitted from the stars as a planet transits.
Quote from Dr. Francisco Javier de Cos Juez, University of Oviedo, “This system is suitable to improve our understanding of formation and dynamical evolution of super-Earth systems in the rocky-gaseous threshold.”
In addition, the LP 415-17 system is also a prime observational target for future facilities including the NASA, ESA, and CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
Read more about this fascinating story at: www.sci-news.com
Or read the full study at: https://academic.oup.com/mnras
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