Scientists discovered Jupiter-like planet 17000 light-years away from Earth

Scientists have made an interesting discovery. They have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star 17,000 light-years away from Earth. Planets that revolve around stars other than the Sun are called exoplanets. This planet has been discovered with the help of Kepler Space Telescope. The special thing is that the Kepler Space Telescope is now retired. He played a role in this discovery in the year 2016. Scientists say that this is the most distant planet ever identified. This exoplanet named K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb was discovered using microlensing technique. Its mass is almost equal to that of our Jupiter. It orbits its Sun at the same distance as our Jupiter orbits its Sun.

The data with the help of which this planet was discovered was collected by the Kepler telescope two years before its retirement. It is the most distant planet ever discovered, twice as far away as the previous record.

The researchers published their findings in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. published Have done

Dr Eamon Kerins, Principal Investigator of a Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) grant, funded the research. They Said This discovery is notable because the Kepler telescope was not intended to use microlensing to detect planets.

Exoplanets located very far from Earth can be detected using gravitational microlensing. Researchers studied Kepler’s data from April to July 2016. Then the spacecraft was monitoring millions of stars through microlensing.

The US space agency NASA will deploy the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope later this decade. This telescope can discover thousands of such planets, which are located far away from Earth, using microlensing technology. The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission can also search for exoplanets through microlensing. It is going to launch next year. It is expected that in the coming time, the world will also come to know about other such planets, which are far away from us, but similar to the planets of our solar system.