In a first, Indian scientists find exoplanet where one 'year' lasts only 19 days READ LATER In a first, Indian scientists finds an exoplanet where a year lasts for 19 days In a first, a scientific team from India has discovered an exoplanet EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b which completes its orbit around the host star, EPIC 211945201 or K2-236, in 19 days, which is like one year for the planet. Exoplanets are generally discovered on foreign soil because the telescope that can see as far as 600 light years from the earth are present in the USA and in Europe. WHO DISCOVERED EXOPLANET IN INDIA? A team of scientists led by Prof Abhijit Chakraborty of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, has found a sub-Saturn or super-Neptune size planet (mass of about 27 Earth Mass and size of 6 Earth Radii) around a Sun-like star. HOW WAS EXOPLANET K2-236B DISCOVERED IN INDIA? For the first time, India has developed first-of-its-kind-spec...
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