PEOPLE’S MIND – Astronomers recently discovered its existence twin planets which contains a lot of water.
The twin planets, thought to be “water worlds,” were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
From the results of the Kepler telescope, information was obtained that perhaps most of it twin planets it consists of water.
The twin planets were later named Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d. both orbit a star located about 218 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lira.
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Astronomers were intrigued by 2014 data from the Kepler Space Telescope and decided to revisit the two twin planets uses the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
“We previously thought that a planet slightly larger than Earth was a big ball of metal and rock, like an enlarged version of the Earth, which is why we called it a super-Earth,” said Björn Benneke, astrophysicist at the University of Montreal. in Canada.
Astronomers have also concluded that two twin planets turns out to have a lot of water volume.
“However, we have now shown that these two planets, Kepler-138c ed, have very different properties, most of their entire volume probably being water,” he said.
