Recent information indicates that there are increasing possibilities in favor of finding young Earth-like planets, as experts found that stellar incubators contain more sun-like stars than expected.
Scientists from Sheffield University studied groups of young stars in the Milky Way to determine if they were typical when compared to other regions that make up the stars in the universe, then they examined whether the number of different stars in each group increased the chances of finding "planets around the magma ocean", That resembles the "small" land.
The results are supposed to help scientists understand if stars are forming in the same way throughout the universe, and also highlight how Earth-like rock worlds are formed.
The planets surrounding the magma are formed by the successive collisions of rocks and small planets whose effects heat their surface to the point where they become molten rocks, which helps in finding them.
Planets emitting heat
In turn, the paper's author and astronomer physicist Richard Parker of the University of Sheffield said: "It is easy to discover these planets around the magma's vicinity near stars like the sun, which are two times heavier than the average mass of a star." This enables the glow emission to be monitored using the next generation of infrared telescopes. "
Parker explained that the sites where these planets can be found are called "mobile youth groups", which are groups of young stars under the age of 100 million years, which are small for the star.
However, it usually contains only a few dozen stars, "It was previously difficult to determine if we found all stars in each group because they mixed in the background of the Milky Way," said Parker: "The observations from the Gaia telescope helped us in To find more stars in these groups, which enabled us to conduct this study. "
A planet-like planet
These results come after scientists at the Max Planck Institute discovered a Earth-like planet orbiting Kepler-160, a star similar to our sun in size and surface temperature.
The planet KOI-456.04 is located in what is called the "livable area", which is the region surrounding a star that has a planet the size of the Earth and has a similar structure with water on its surface.
However, with Kepler-160, and the planet at about 3,000 light-years away, it remains unclear what the atmosphere of KOI-456.04 might be.
University researcher Molly Hayg, who is also from the University of Sheffield, said: "Participation in this project was one of the highlights of our university experience. It was useful to see a physical application of computer encryption that we learned in our testimony by taking samples from the initial mass distribution of stars, and how This could be linked to the future of the detection of exoplanets. "
It is noteworthy that scientists, after completing their initial studies, are looking to use computer simulations to determine the origin of the small groups of stars that they have examined.
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