New Super-Earth Discovered

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has recently discovered a Super-Earth.

The Super-Earth

  • The Super-Earth, which is yet to be named, was discovered by an event called OGLE-2018-BLG-0677 which used the gravitational microlensing technique.
  • The process involved combining microlensing observations gathered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) located in Poland and the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network, coupled with several months of computational analyses.
  • The star which the planet orbits is too small, has a mass one-tenth that of our sun and is a dim dwarf star, or perhaps a brown dwarf.
  • The Super-Earth circles ....
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