There may be an ocean planet in our cosmic neighborhood.

The results of the research were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

LHS 1140 B It is a planet orbiting a small star. It is 48 light years away from us. This star is a red dwarf with a radius only about 15 percent the radius of the Sun and a much lower temperature than our daytime star (about 3,000 K compared to 5,800 K).

However, the star’s parameters do not prevent it from being around. The so-called habitable zone (ecological envelope, ecoregion), Or a region where conditions on the planet’s surface allow for liquid water to exist. Simply put, the planet must orbit much closer to the star than Earth orbits the Sun. That’s the case for LHS 1140 b, which has an orbital period of just under 25 days.

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