The Discovery Of Four New Planets

Discovery of four new planets outside our solar system have helped enliven the lackluster reception of new year 2012. A few days ago, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian center for Astrophysics discovered four new planets, known as exoplanets which further adds to a long list of discoveries of planets beyond our solar system.

All four are named Exoplanet HAT-P-34b, HAT-P-35b, HAT-P-36b and HAT-P-37b, each of which orbits 5.5 days, 3.6 days, 1.3 days, and 2.8 days. In view of the length of the planet's orbit can be concluded that the Fourth planet orbits all have a very small circle. As already known, each planet orbits its star have a bond for each. As the Earth orbits the sun.

4 The discovery of this new planet still do not indicate the existence of other planets like our Earth. So the question about the possibility of another living creature in space can not yet answer. This exoplanet, is largely a form of mass gas giant orbits very close to its star, even closer than Mercury is to the Sun distance. With so could be expected that the temperature is hotter than the Earth so that there could be no living thing can live there.

At the end of 2011, there were a total of 716 planets that have been confirmed as exoplanets, planets and the 2326 is still a candidate exoplanets. The planets were discovered by an orbiting telescopes such as Kepler in space and space on Earth observation center known as network telescopes operated by astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Network telescopes, known by the name HATNet project, was the first discovered exoplanet HAT-P-1b, in 2006.

With the discovery of four new planets (exoplanets) is expected to be more enlightening activities astronomers on Earth and increase their passion to continuously strive tirelessly to find the possibility of life outside our planet is increasingly aging.