Three of the discovered exoplanets belong to the super-Earth type – planets with a mass higher than the Earth, but substantially below that of giants like Uranus and Neptune.
Scientists have discovered six extremely heated exoplanets that they say would allow them to learn more about planets outside our solar system. Dr Carole Haswell, Dr Daniel Staab, and Dr John Barnes, all from the Open University in Britain, used a new method to find exoplanets that is based on the oversight of ablation – a process during which materials evaporate from solid or liquid surfaces. In space, ablation occurs when planets get close to stars.
The researchers detected ablated material in three planetary systems, where in turn they found six planets that were very close to stars and heated to temperatures of 1,100 – 1,800 degrees Celsius. In their work, the team used the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6m telescope in Chile.
Three exoplanets belong to the super-Earth type of planets, with masses between three and ten times that of Earth. Scientists say that a further study of the chemical composition of material that evaporates from the surfaces of the discovered exoplanets would reveal the type of rock on the surface.
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