Astronomers spot a new ultra-hot exoplanet twice as big as Earth

When astronomers are looking for exoplanets, the real goal is to find a distant world that could be in the habitable zone according to scientists. These planets, which are just the right temperature to support liquid water on their surface, are considered our best option for finding extraterrestrial life, but sometimes a hostile exoplanet is just as interesting. This is the case with a new world called Wolf 503b.

Wolf 503b is about twice as big as Earth, but researchers can not tell if it's a rocky hard world like ours or a gas ball. Whatever it is, traveling to Wolf 503b would certainly not be comfortable because of its proximity to its star. The planet revolves around its star even closer than Mercury revolves around our Sun, which means that the planet is incredibly hot.

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"Wolf 503b is one of the only planets to have a radius close to the gap that has a star bright enough to lend itself to a more detailed study that will limit its true nature," said Björn Benneke, co-author of 'study. in a report. "This provides a key opportunity to better understand the origin of this ray as well as the nature of intriguing populations of 'super-lands' and 'sub-neptunes' as a whole."

The planet, discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, and its star are actually relatively close to Earth. They are located only about 145 light-years from our planet, which is a stone's throw from the grand scheme. Because of this, the planet will probably be an excellent target for the next James Webb Space Telescope, if the engineers eventually build it.

With a more powerful telescope, scientists could begin to assess what the atmosphere of the planet is made of and whether or not there is water and hydrogen. We will not know how similar Earth is to the Earth until we have seen it in more detail, but with temperatures approaching 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it is very unlikely that we will have the chance to find the life there.

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