According to the news on ESO’s website, a planet whose year is equivalent to approximately 3.15 Earth days was discovered as a result of studies carried out at the “Very Large Telescope” (VLT) observatory.
The surface temperature of this exoplanet, named “Barnard b” and discovered as a result of a 5-year study carried out at the observatory in Chile, was determined to be approximately 125 degrees Celsius.
It was stated that the discovery of “Barnard b” was confirmed by many different instruments such as the observatory’s High Accuracy Circular Velocity Planet Search Instrument (HARPS), Carmenes and ESPRESSO spectrographs.
On the other hand, it was seen that the research data did not support the data of the study conducted in 2018 on the discovery of a planet thought to belong to Barnard’s Star.
In addition to the discovery of “Barnard b”, the research team also found traces of three different exoplanets that may orbit this star.
Jonay Gonzalez Hernandez, one of the researchers, stated that “Barnard b” is one of the lowest-mass planets discovered so far.
Emphasizing that “Barnard b” does not have life similar to life on Earth because it is too close to the star, Gonzalez Hernandez underlined that the planet is too hot to have liquid water on its surface.
The study was published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics”.