50 New Planets Found, One Only Maybe Derelict

Asianadesun.com,WYOMING,European astronomers discovered 50 new planets in our solar system. Of that amount, 16 of whom identified planet-sized our planet.

Discovered the largest planet named after a planet HD 85512 b, measuring 3.6 times the mass of earth can be reached within 36 light years and is in the constellation Vela. The findings also stated that nearly half of luminous stars like our sun and a few more shining than the Saturn.

Like Earth planets, scientists believe there are traces of water in there, which allows no life there.

The findings presented in A planet on Extreme Solar Systems conference in Wyoming, USA. The conference was attended by about 350 experts from around the world.

These new planets discovered by a mission of The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), which is installed at the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory, Chile.

'Detection of HD 85 512 b away from the boundary HARPS, and suggests the possibility of finding Earth's super (super-Earth) who allows life to exist around stars like the sun, "said University of Geneva astronomer Michel Mayor.

One team member, Lisa Kaltenegger, of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the findings mark a new era of the past life of the planet search. "We are entering an extraordinary achievement in the history of astronomy," he said.