NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has found a new Exoplanet, a Super Earth
Our planet earth is very beautiful. All of us desire to see it once from outer space atleast once in our lives. However, most of us cannot. What if you find an alien who visits your planet from a planet although super sized but identical (just imagine because they might not be poor enough to be unable to visit us). So, what do you think, either, it might be fascinating or dangerous, remarkable or challenging, well whatever it would be like, the experience will be extraordinary.
Space science is one of the most rigorously developing fields of science. HIP 116454b is located in the constellation Pisces, approximately 180 light-years from Earth.It is a super-Earth exoplanet, with a diameter of 32,000 km – two and a half times the size of our planet – and a mass of almost 12 times that of Earth.
HIP 116454b circles a K1-type orange dwarf star, HIP 116454, once every 9.1 days at a distance of 13.5 million km.
The planet was discovered by Dr Andrew Vanderburg of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and his colleagues using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft during its second life, known as the K2 mission.
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