Indian Scientists Discover Planets Around Stars About 600 Light Years Away?
From the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) of Ahmedabad, a team of Indian scientists discovered sub-Saturn or super-Neptune-shaped size exoplanet(a planet which exists outside Earth’s solar system), which is approximately 27 times the mass of Earth and six times the radius of the planet. About 600 light years away from the Earth, the planet revolves around a Sun-like star. The discovery was made by calculating the mass of the planet using the aboriginal designed ‘PRL Advance Radial-velocity Abu-Sky Search’ (PARAS) spectrograph which is combined with 1.2m telescope at PRL’s Gurushikar Observatory in Mount Abu. “With the discovery being made, India has entered in the list of the select league of countries which has discovered that there are planets around the stars”. On the website of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), there was a mention in the post, where scientists said that the host star (star around which planets were observed) is EPIC 211945201 or K2–236 ...