A new way may help astronomers discover viable planets outside the solar system.

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Astronomers used optical interference technology for the first time to study planets outside our solar system, and they found the Jupiter-like HR 8799e Planet, which has a surface temperature of 880 º C, which means that it is probably life-free, but the unprecedented quality of the monitoring process proves that the interference technology Visual can help us find living creatures in outer space.

Collective effort

Optical interference technology relies on several telescopes at the same time to study a specific offence, rather than relying on a single telescope. An international team of astronomers used a graffiti tool, an overlap tool that uses four 8-metre diameter telescopes, affiliated to the great telescope of the South European Observatory, to study the planets outside the solar group with unprecedented accuracy, and published the study in the Astronomi and Astrovisex patrol. The team used this data to calculate the distance between the planet and the star of HR 8799, with a precision above the previous methods of about ten times.

Powerful tool

Astronomers also managed to measure the spectrum of HR 8799e, a molecular formula, with unprecedented accuracy, leading to an unexpected discovery. "When we compare it with the planets of our solar system, we anticipate large amounts of methane in the atmosphere of such a hot gaseous planet, but surprisingly, the atmosphere of the HR 8799e contains only small amounts of methane, and we found instead large amounts of the first AC, Carbon Master.»

According to the South European Observatory, our ability to measure the spectrum of outer planets may be our greatest opportunity to find living creatures out of the earth, and thanks to this study, we know today that we have a very new and precise way of looking for planets that support the existence of living organisms.