Goldilocks Zone Current Affairs, GK & News
Super Earth discovered
The scientists from New Zealand have discovered the “Super Earth”. It potentially holds the conditions to sustain human life. Highlights The super earth is one of the handful of planets discovered that are of the same size and orbiting distance as that of the earth. The host star of the planet is 10% the mass ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Exoplanet • Goldilocks Zone • Planet • Stars • Sun • Super-Earth
GJ 357 d: NASA’s TESS discovers 1st nearby super-earth
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has discovered GJ 357 d, a super-Earth planet located 31 light years away from our own solar system. Researchers claim that it is the first nearby “super-Earth” planet that could possibly support life as it orbit within its star’s “habitable zone or Goldilocks Zone”. About GJ 357 d ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2019
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Exoplanet • GJ 357 d • Goldilocks Zone • NASA • Solar System • Space Mission • Super-Earth • TESS Satellite
TOI 270: NASA’s TESS discovers
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently discovered new dwarf star and planetary system named as TOI 270. It is located about 73 light years away from Earth, and in the constellation Pictor. TOI 270 Planetary System Its members include Dwarf star named TOI 270, which is 40 % smaller than the Sun in size ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2019
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Dwarf star • Goldilocks Zone • NASA • Space exploration • Space Exploration Mission • TOI 270 Planetary System • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
NASA's Kepler Telescope finds 10 Earth-Like Planets
NASA’s Kepler Telescope has identified 10 Earth-like planets outside the solar system that are expected to host life due to their right size and temperature. This finding is a boost in the hope for life elsewhere. Exoplanet: It is a planet that does not orbit the Sun and instead orbits a different star, stellar remnant, ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2017
Topics: Current Affairs - 2017 • Exoplanet • Goldilocks Zone • James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) • Kepler space telescope • NASA • Science and Technology
LHS 1140b: Another planet in habitable zone discovered
Astronomers have discovered yet another planet, called LHS1140b, which is expected to be present in the Goldilocks Zone. It’s not so far away, either. It is found orbiting around the star LHS 1140 some 39 light-years away. Goldilocks Zone refers to a habitable zone where the temperature is neither too high nor too low. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2017
Topics: Exoplanet • Goldilocks Zone • Hubble Telescope • James Webb Space Telescope • NASA • Science and Technology