France discovered adding a new planet

France's Corot space research ship collaborated with some countries to discover a planet for the first time as it passed a distant star. This planet is similar to Jupiter, but much hotter.

Simulation of Corot's observation method.(Photo: ESA)

Corot spacecraft carries a telescope launched on December 27 last year, to carry out the mission of searching for Earth-like planets in the universe. This is the ship's first mission. The new planet is named Corot-exo-1b , 1,500 light-years away and in the constellation Monoceros.

Corot searches for planets by tracking stars from a tilted angle. This allows observations of objects moving through them. The ship has a 650kg satellite, so sensitive that it can observe even planets outside the solar system, only a few times bigger than our planet. In the next two and a half years, Corot will observe more than 100,000 stars, hoping to find other living planets.

Professor Suzanne Aigrain, a researcher in Corot's mission and a planetary researcher outside the solar system, at the University of Exeter, England, is delighted to discover a planet after a while. Short ship launch.

She said: 'This is a large planet, has a structure similar to Jupiter, but about 1.3 times larger than Jupiter and has a radius of about 1.5 to 1.8 times larger. It is very close to its star. That star is like our Sun, and it orbits a star 1.5 times a day. '

She also said that the discovery of this new planet shows that their space mission is working very well and the mission of finding smaller planets on Earth is at their fingertips.

(Photo: BBC)

Spacecraft uses observation methods similar to seismic methods, using earth waves to study inside the earth. However, Corot tracks major changes in light waves, due to vibrations inside a star that cause and spread throughout its surface.

Now researchers are analyzing the data collected to determine the size, age, and composition of this star.

Corot is a joint project between the French Space Agency Cnes and the European Space Agency Esa, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany and Spain.

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