Discover 5 hot planets like volcanoes

The Kepler Space Telescope of America has found five extrasolar planets whose surface temperatures are greater than boiling lava.

These are the first planets discovered by Kepler since it was launched on March 6, 2009, to search for strange planets. The BBC says all five new planets are bigger than Neptune and revolve around stars. They are named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b. The smallest planet has a radius of 4 times that of the earth, and the largest planet is bigger than Jupiter.

According to National Geographic, 5 planets have the same mass as Jupiter and move very close to their own stars. Thanks to that, Kepler's glasses found them relatively easy.

At a press conference on January 4, William Borucki, head of the telescope expert group Kepler, said the planets have a surface temperature of 1.090 to 1.650 degrees Celsius - hot enough to melt gold.

Kepler space telescope illustration.Photo: USA Today.

"The planets we have found have a higher surface temperature than molten lava. Because of the hot surface, they always glow," Borucki told the BBC.

With the density of insulating porous equivalents (about 0.17 g per cubic centimeter), Kepler 7b is one of the lowest-density planets among humans. Borucki thinks it will attract the attention of many scientists.

"Life cannot exist on those planets. Perhaps Kepler will find planets of life in the near future," National Geographic quoted Borucki.

The main goal of Kepler's glass is to search for planets that are capable of producing life. They must have stones and revolve around stars like Earth, while not too close or too far from their own stars so that water can exist in liquid form.

"The five new planets don't meet those criteria, but they show that the Kepler glasses work as well as the scientists expect. It may surprise you in the next few years , " said Greg Laughlin, the celestial house Posted by University of California, USA, comment.

The Kepler telescope is equipped with the largest camera that humans have ever taken to space. Thanks to this camera, more than 100,000 stars can be observed simultaneously. When a planet passes in front of its own star, it creates a dark space on the star's surface. Kepler only needs to search for dark spaces on the stellar surface to detect the planet's existence.