Discovery Of The Super Earth | Space Discoveries 2020
In the last post we understood about some of the 'Super Earths'. Lets explore more 'Super Earths'!!
Tee garden b
Tee garden b it's an exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star about 12 lightyears away from the solar system. Typically, red dwarfs can emit flares that blow away the atmosphere of the planets in its orbit but this host star is calm and relatively passive. Tee garden b has almost the same mass as the earth.it makes a complete circle around its star in about five days. Yep, you got it right a year on Tee garden b is less than a week on earth hold on to your hats.
Kepler 1638b
The furthest potential inhabited planet is Kepler 1638b. It’s in the constellation Cygnus about 3 000 light-years away from us.it belongs to the super-earth class is twice as wide and four times as heavy as our home planet. The gravity on it will feel much stronger even a normal jump will be much harder for you than on Earth. although if this planet is inhabited local life is used to such conditions.
LHS 1140b
LHS 1140b this planet is very rocky and solid, although its size is only 40 per cent larger than the earth it’s seven times as massive. It has a strong gravity of 3.25gs for comparison when you take off on an aeroplane you experience an overload of about one and a half gram's so on this planet, you'd barely be able to stand on your feet, because of its large mass this planet has a thicker atmosphere and because of the greenhouse effect its temperature can be above 19degrees Fahrenheit and it rotates around its star quite quickly it makes a full circle in just 24 days.
Trappist-1
Trappist-1 a small planet orbits in its habitable zone it’s three times lighter than the earth its temperature is similar to ours but the gravity is half as weak but we would still feel comfortable there. Remember the people that went to the moon where the gravity is only 16of the earth's that's what makes the astronauts move so funny.
Kepler-452b
Kepler-452b is in a system that resembles the older sister of ours. The host star is only 11 per cent older than our sun and is almost 2 billion years older. the exoplanet itself is six and a half billion years old compared to four and a half billion of earth’s but these sisters are very far from each other if you travel at the speed of the new ‘Horizon spacecraft’ will take about 26 million years to get there.
Proxima Centauri b
This is the closest exoplanet to us Proxima Centauri b.it orbits the red dwarf Proxima Centauri which is the closest star to the sun. This planet is just4.2 light years away from us its size and mass are very similar to those of the earth.it probably has an icy structure like Neptune although Proxima Centauri is the closest star after the Sun we can't see it with a naked eye because it’s too dim.
So, all these planets including the 24that scientists have recently found are in the habitable zone of their host stars and in theory we can colonize them and make them suitable for human life in the future. But here we'll have to solve one big problem. Even the nearest exoplanet is too far away for us today. Our modern rockets can fly at five times the speed of sound and even at such speeds, it will take us more than one hundred thousand years to get to Proxima Centauri on one of them. Well, we need to come up with something a bit faster to travel to a new home on one of these exoplanets and perhaps scientists already have the answer.
Warp Drive this is a piece of technology that will allow us to manipulate space and time it creates a kind of a bubble in which the normal laws of motion don’t work. So, the spacecraft will be able to significantly exceed the speed of lightened this isn't science fiction humanity already has such technology although just in theory yet it's Alcubierre warp drive and no I didn't make that up since no object that has mass can travel at the speed of light, we need to do one trick. The spacecraft has to move by compressing the space in front of it and expanding it behind it thus not only the ship is moving but also the space-time inside this warp drive bubble and the maximum speed can be 10 times that of light but to warp the space-time the ship must be incredibly large and to power, it will need the amount of energy close to what the whole planet of Jupiter generates.
Still, recent calculations of NASA’s jet propulsion lab showed that the ring around the ship which should create the so-called warp field shouldn’t be perfectly round as it was thought before.it can be more doughnut-shaped ah doughnuts. This will greatly simplify the design and construction and will make it possible to test this technology on a spacecraft the size of a voyager 1 pro even though it still seems impossible scientists are already saying that there is hope and while we don't know what technology will be used in 2069. Nasa plans to launch its first interstellar mission to explore potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system. Various rumours say that the speed of light can be achieved with laser technology. If the probe is very small it can be launched to the alpha Centauri start almost the speed of light. There are also two other alternatives to power spaceships. These are nuclear energy and energy from matter and anti-matter collisions. These technologies are still a mystery to humanity though well for the time being stay tuned.
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