MOSCOW, January 24 British scientists have discovered 85 new planets outside the solar system, the temperature of which makes them suitable for life, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.
«»Scientists from the University of Warwick have discovered another 85 «exoplanets», planets outside our solar system… Like Earth, they are potentially at the right distance from their stars to have a temperature that could support life, so-called » zone of possible habitation,» the publication says.
It is noted that all of them are larger than the Earth, some have a diameter 1.4 times greater than the Earth's, others more than 40 times. According to the head of the study, graduate student Faith Hawthorne, each of the planets is in a separate system, some of them may consist of gas, and some may have a solid shell, writes the Daily Mail.
The only thing known about the discovered celestial bodies is that they revolve around their stars slower than most exoplanets, with preliminary data suggesting they take between 20 and 700 days to orbit, compared with the standard 3 to 10 days, suggesting they are farther away from their star, meaning cooler temperatures, the newspaper reported.
Of the 85 exoplanets discovered, 60 represent a completely new discovery, while the remaining 25 were discovered by independent teams that were already in NASA telescope data, the article says.
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