There is a strange but very justified obsession of the scientific community with the discovery of more and more exoplanets that share qualities with our planet Earth. It has been a matter of interest for years POT and other agencies.
Perhaps for this reason, discoveries have not stopped arising around this type of stars that are far, very far from our solar system. But just the same, in some way, they have been able to form themselves with attributes similar to those of our home.
There we have the case of Kepler-1649c, an exoplanet located 300 light years from our Earth, which has a similar size and also a very similar temperature.
So in theory it could present the same favorable conditions for life. Although that is for now a mere speculation.
But the truth is that the list of this type of stars found is getting bigger and bigger.
This is the exoplanet TOI-1452 b
A group of astronomers from the University of Montreal, in Canada, and the Exoplanet Research Institute (iREx), have discovered an exoplanet, one of the so-called “oceanic planets”, because it is completely covered with water.
This formation is located in the constellation Draco. 100 light years from Earth, and despite having an immense layer of deep ocean, actually under the water we would find a rocky composition like that of our planet.
Its observation and analysis would have been possible through the Mont-Megantic Observatory (WMO) and NASA’s TESS telescope, which played an important role in the discovery in the constellation of Draco:
“The WMO played a crucial role in confirming the nature of this signal and estimating the radius of the planet.
This was not a routine check. We had to make sure that the signal detected by TESS was actually caused by an exoplanet surrounding TOI-1452, the larger of the two stars in that binary system.”
The details and general data of this discovery have been published in the most recent edition of The Astronomical Journal (via Tech E Blog) in a document signed by Charles Cadieux, doctoral student at the University of Montreal and member of iREx.
The qualities of the temperature of this planet, which are not extreme in terms of heat or cold, make your body have that layer of ocean. Very similar to some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Approximately a third of the mass of the new extrasolar planet would be made up of water.