As observations reach all the way into the central bulge of our galaxy, the finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets — planets that orbit stars other than our own. Astronomers have spotted 202 extrasolar planets since the first was spotted in October 1995.
They uncovered the existence of 16 planets in the category of close orbiters, taking between 0.4 and 3.2 days to go around their respective stars. Many of the newly found planets matches the size of Jupiter.
With new investigation in progress, we can hope of many Earth-sized planets and hopefully life too and that means its time to meet our new neighbors.
The new investigation will be sensitive enough to detect possibly hundreds of Earth-sized planet candidates in or near the habitable zone around a star
Via: ANTARA
