The proud moment for India; ISRO discovers it!!

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Jun 09, 2018, 06:34 PM

The proud moment for India; ISRO discovers it!!

Mumbai, June 09: In a major breakthrough for space research in India, A new planet has been discovered by a team of Indian scientists based from Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad.

For the first time, India joined a select group of countries which have found planets around stars with the discovery of what is known as a sub-Saturn or super-Neptune-sized planet having a radius that is six times that of earth, Isro announced on Friday.

The planet is 27 times the mass of Earth and six times the radius of it. The planet is 600 light years away from the Earth and it revolves around a Sun-like star.ISRO claims that 60-70% of the planet may have ice, silicate, iron and other substances.

According to ISRO, scientists said the planet will be known as EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b and name of its host star is EPIC 211945201 or K2-236.

The research was initiated by Prof. Abhijit Chakraborty of the ISRO's Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad.

With this discovery, India has joined a select league of countries having discovered planets revolving around stars. The surface temperature of the planet has been found around 600 degrees Celsius, thus might make it uninhabitable.