00:03are there other planets like ours so far not so much but astronomers are always on the lookout
00:09for earth-like planets that may harbor life and recently astronomers discovered two such planets
00:14or what are often referred to as super earths and they're actually pretty close super earths
00:19are planets that are larger than ours but smaller than ice giants like neptune they're also rocky
00:24and mineral laden rather than made of gas like jupiter and recently the two exoplanets which
00:29are 1.2 and 1.5 times the size of earth were discovered orbiting a red dwarf star only 33
00:35light years away the planets were discovered when they passed between human telescopes and their own
00:39star called hd 260655 blocking the red dwarf's light and allowing us to detect them and they do that
00:46quite frequently as a year on either of the orbiting worlds is 2.8 and 5.7 earth days respectively
00:52as
00:53that's how long it takes each of them to travel around the dim star but that also means they aren't
00:57likely habitable as they're too close to their star to maintain liquid water with each planet likely
01:02having surface temperatures of 543 degrees and 816 degrees fahrenheit respectively
01:09you
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