Do astronomers discover Spock's planet Vulcan?

Without Spock, there would be no Star Trek And without Star Trek, We would not have met Vulcan. The Starship Enterprise Vulcan officer has always captivated the public and kept Captain Kirk in check while embarking on new journeys to places where no man had yet gone. Now, it appears that humans have actually discovered Spock's original planet, Vulcan.

Astronomers would have found something that they believe is an exoplanet reminiscent of Star TrekThe planet Vulcan. The exoplanet is very close to us. It revolves around a star in a system located only 16 light years from our planet Earth.

Experts published the detailed study in the Monthly notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, according to which this is the first discovery of super-Earth made by the telescope Dharma Planet Survey and Dharma Endowment Foundation. This planet resembling Vulcan is also "the closest super-Earth gravitating around another Sun-like star," said author of the study, Jian Ge. Ge is an astronomer from the University of Florida.

The super-lands are supposed to have a much larger mass than the Earth but smaller than the gigantic gaseous planets. This newly found mass is twice that of our original planet and orbits around its star "with a 42-day period just inside the optimal habitable zone of the star", has declared the astronomer.

Essentially, when we see a planet in the habitable zone of its star system; it means that liquid water can be seen on the surface, indicating that the planet could accommodate life as we know it.

The planet of our interest orbit an orange star, named HD 26965. This star is a little cooler and smaller in size than our sun. Another author of the study, Matthew Muterspaugh, said that this star also has a magnetic cycle similar to that of our sun. Muterspaugh is an astronomer from Tennessee State University. "Therefore, HD 26965 can be an ideal host star for an advanced civilization."

the Star Trek the fans know another star by the name of 40 Eridani A. Now this star is very real and the Star Trek Gene Roddenberry also confirmed that it was the host of the great Vulcan, Spock's house. In 1991, Roddenberry and some astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics wrote in a "letter to the editor" Sky and telescope 40 Eridani A would be the perfect star to welcome Vulcan.

"Vulcan presumably orbits the primary star, an orange dwarf of spectral type K1 main sequence, which shone brightly in the Vulcan sky," they wrote in the letter.

So what is the link?

Well, the newly found planet is located at the exact spot where Roddenberry and astronomers Sallie Baliunas, Robert Donahue and George Nassiopoulos had imagined to be Vulcan.

"Spock served on the Enterprise ship, whose mission was to search out new strange worlds, a mission shared by the Dharma Planet Survey," said Gregory Henry, an astronomer at Tennessee State University. Star Trek fan. He is also another author of the study.

Well, all we can say to this new planet and its possible extraterrestrial society is to "live long and prosper".