Discovered 28 new planets outside the solar system

A group of scientists searching for planets reported that they discovered 28 new planets outside the Solar System, increasing the number of planets discovered to 236.

'Over the past year our group has increased the number of known planets by 12% and found that at least 30% of the parent stars have at least one planet orbiting it,' said Jason Wright of the University of California, team member. save, say. The new planets are among the 37 objects discovered last year, including seven brown dwarfs - a type of star that is dying, larger than a planet but smaller than a regular star.

'We can easily detect large planets like Jupiter and Saturn around other stars. Most planets with orbits far from their parent stars like Jupiter and Saturn are far from the Sun, ' said Geoffrey Marcy, a professor of astronomy at California Berkeley University.

Of the 28 new planets, scientists discovered a planet like the Neptune star orbiting the star Gliese 436 with water. Geoffrey Marcy said it was the first planet outside the Solar System that was supposed to have water, but he was not sure if there was life there.

The above information was made at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society on May 28 in Honolulu.

Artwork of the planet rotating around Gliese 436 (right) - (Photo: sfgate.com)

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