Astronomers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have discovered a new planet which is considered to be in the middle of the Habitable Zone of its parent star, a discovery which has raised the possibility of finding life on another planet. Researchers found the planet while conducting the Lick-Carnegie exoplanet survey of Gliese 581, a red dwarf . The planet, named ' Gliese 581 g' , is approximately 20 light years away from Earth and is hypothesised to have a generally rocky landscape with enough gravitational pull to accumulate an atmosphere.
Astronomers at the have discovered a new planet which is considered to be in the middle of the of its parent star, a discovery which has raised the possibility of finding life on another planet. Researchers found the planet while conducting the Lick-Carnegie exoplanet survey of , a . The planet, named '' , is approximately 20 away from Earth and is hypothesised to have a generally rocky landscape with enough gravitational pull to accumulate an atmosphere.
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