The Kepler spacecraft finds a new 'super-earth'

After monitoring and observing 100,000 different stars, NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered a new planet with a radius of about 1.6 times that of the Earth and is as round as the sun.

Kepler discovered the new 'Super Earth'. (Photo: Discovery)

According to scientists, the new planet named Kepler-21b orbiting the Earth's orbit takes 2.8 days, more than 5 million kilometers from Mercury and has a temperature of more than 1,000 degrees C.

'Kepler-21b is a planet with 5 or 10 times the mass of Earth, which is not suitable for us to live on,' said NASA researcher Steve Howell of Discovery .

Up to now, the number of exoplanets is more than 700 planets. Kepler's scientific team is working hard to detect more than 1,200 other planets in the future.

The main task of the Kepler telescope is to track thousands of stars and planets similar to Earth that exist on the surface. In addition, Kepler is also responsible for recording the cycle of planets across the Earth with almost absolute accuracy.

This study will appear in the upcoming Astrophysical Journal .