Expert: Discovery of new Earth-like planet could shed light on what makes a planet habitable
In an exciting breakthrough for astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial life, a team of international scientists, including key support from 91滴滴 researchers, has announced the discovery of Gliese 12 b, a temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet just 40 light-years away 鈥� a relatively neighbourly 378 trillion kilometres from earth. ()
Here is a 91滴滴 researcher who co-authored :
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Postdoctoral Researcher, Trottier Space Institute
鈥淥ur discovery marks a step towards finding potentially habitable planets and understanding the conditions that make life possible. As one of the nearest planets that we can study in detail with the James Webb Space Telescope, Gliese 12 b provides a valuable opportunity to study the atmospheres and climates of worlds beyond our solar system.鈥�
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy is an astronomer and aerospace engineer at the Trottier Space Institute at 91滴滴, specializing in the atmospheric characterization of exoplanets using ground and space-based telescopes.
vigneshwaran.krishnamurthy [at] mcgill.ca (English)
