New planet Corot-9b has Earth-like temperatures
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
The first planet gezegen with a "temperate ılıman" climate to orbit yörünge izlemek a distant star has been discovered by astronomers, who claim that the techniques used to study it will be critical in the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our own solar system güneş sistemi.
Corot-9b, as the planet is called, is one of more than 400 "exoplanets güneş sistemi dışındaki gezegenler" found to be orbiting other stars, but it is the first one with a near-normal temperature range çeşitlilik that can be studied as it moves across (or "transits") the sun it orbits.
"This is a normal, temperate exoplanet just like dozens we already know, but this is the first whose properties we can study in depth," said Claire Moutou, one of the team of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory who made the discovery keşif. "It is bound to become a Rosetta stone in exoplanet research."
Corot-9b passes in front of its host star, 1,500 light years away in the constellation (astr.) takımyıldız Serpens, every 95 days, and the transit geçme lasts about eight hours, which is when astronomers can make measurements of the planet's composition and temperature,estimated tahmin etmek to range from minus 20C to 160C.
"Corot-9b is the first exoplanet that really does resemble benzemek planets in our solar system," said Hans Deeg, the lead baş author of the study published in the journal Nature. "It has the size of Jupiter and an orbit yörünge similar to that of Mercury. We expect this to be a reference object for the next decade. We can derive (f.) çıkarmak its temperature as we know the distance uzaklık to the central star and the type of central star it is."
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