Similar to earth; NASA finds exoplanet

NASA: A planet that mimics earth in size lies outside the solar system. Similar to the earth rotating around the sun, the newly found planet rotates around another star. This is the first planet found by the reputed James Webb telescope in the US.

Named LHS 475 B, the new planet is said to be 99% larger in diameter than earth according to astronomers. A team of researchers, led by staff astronomer Kevin Stevenson and postdoctoral fellow Jacob Lustig-Yaeger at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, observed the target using Webb.

“There are some terrestrial-type atmospheres that we can rule out,” Lustig-Yaeger said. “It can’t have a thick methane-dominated atmosphere, similar to that of Saturn’s moon Titan.”

NASA has been laboring more to find out planets outside the solar system through its exoplanet survey. The environment observed on the new planet remains ambiguous, but it is said that the new one is 100 times hotter than earth.