This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets
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Summary
Scientists from the University of Montreal, Canada, have discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet, L 98-59 f, which is the fifth planet in the “habitable zone” of the red dwarf star L 98-59.
The exoplanet is the same distance from its star as the Earth is from the sun, and if it has the correct atmosphere could be temperate with water on the surface.
Using two planet-hunting instruments, the high-precision HARPS spectrograph and the ESPRESSO rocky exoplanet spectrograph, the team detected the planet’s presence through the gravitational pull it has on its host star, causing it to move in a subtle dance.
The next step is to use the James Webb Space Telescope to get a picture of the exoplanet.
This system is gradually becoming one of the most interesting nearby for exploring the diversity of rocky planets and searching for signs of life.
