Super Earth discovered orbiting one of the Milky Way's oldest stars
Channel: Absolute Cosmos
Date: 2021-01-13

Astronomers have discovered a hot, rocky "super Earth" (named TOI-561b) near one of the oldest stars (TOI-561) in our Milky Way galaxy. The exoplanet is about 50% larger than Earth but requires less than half a day to orbit its star. Astronomers also found that TOI-561b's density is similar to that of Earth. TOI-561b's low density suggests that it has relatively few heavy elements and is therefore very old, forming perhaps 10 billion or so years ago. It is one of the oldest rocky planets yet discovered.
Read more:https://phys.org/news/2021-01-super-earth-galaxy-oldest-stars.html
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