Three more planets! Yes, all credits go to the Chilean telescope. It has discovered a unique planetary system that shelters three planets in it. The planets are found to be similar to Neptune. It is also found to be orbiting a star, which according to the European Southern Observatory, is a little more massive than our sun.



The observatory in a news release said,

The planet closest to the star is probably rocky and the farthest is the first exoplanet of that mass that is in the habitable zone of its star, meaning, where water could be found in liquid form.

Christophe Lovis, astronomer with Switzerland’s Observatory of Geneva and the lead author of an article about the find said,

It’s the first discovery of a planetary system made up of various planets of a Neptune-type mass.

The planetary system is discovered 41 light years away in the Puppis constellation. This finding is the result of observing the star for more than two years. Scientist teams from the Observatory of Geneva and the University of Bern Physics Institute — both in Switzerland, did this study. Nature magazine will be publishing this finding on Thursday.



Via: Reuters