The real planet Vulcan in Star Trek is real, super-Earth!

US scientists have discovered a super-Earth that orbits a star 40 Eridani A, exactly where in Star Trek, Vulcan's alien planet exists.

The famous sci-fi film Star Trek has one of the main alien Spock characters, coming from the planet named Vulcan - a fantasy object that revolves around a real star 40 Eridani A.

40 Eridani A also known as Keid or HD 26965 , is a bright star of the Eridanus constellation, visible from the earth with the naked eye. This star is slightly orange, smaller and cooler than our sun but has the same age and some similar properties.

Close up of the newly discovered "Vulcan planet" - (graphic image of Don Davis).

Nearly four decades after the first Star Trek franchise was released (1979), modern telescopes have helped people find the truth about Vulcan. Thanks to the system of hunting the modern planet Dharma Planet Survey , the team of scientists from the University of Florida and the University of Tennessee (USA) discovered the shape of a planet twice the size of the Earth around this star , right in the position of planet Vulcan.

One year on this planet is 42 days long on Earth and comes to stand on "Vulcan", one can observe two brothers of 40 Eridani A.

The research team said this is also the first super Earth that Dharma Planet Survey system discovered. They are continuing to study the planet in consideration of the life support factors it may have.

Super Earth - the real-life Vulcan planet - has a close distance to its parent star, so scientists worry that it will be quite difficult to live, because high temperatures make it difficult to survive in liquid form. However, because its parent star is quite similar to the sun, it does not exclude the possibility that a Vulcan type is very different from what we imagine it might be.

The study was published online on arXiv.org and is expected to be officially published next month in the scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.