{"id":159664,"date":"2023-03-06T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-have-glimpsed-59-new-exoplanets-in-our-backyard"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:22:18","slug":"scientists-have-glimpsed-59-new-exoplanets-in-our-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-have-glimpsed-59-new-exoplanets-in-our-backyard","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Glimpsed 59 New Exoplanets in Our Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-glimpsed-59-new-exoplanets-in-our-backyard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They include 43 \u201cEarth and Super-Earths.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As of 2015, the Consortium\u2019s purpose has been to look for terrestrial-type exoplanets around nearby red dwarf stars. Since then, the CARMENES instrument has doubled the number of known exoplanets around nearby M-type stars using the Radial Velocity Method.<\/p>\n<p>The 59 exoplanets they identified between 2016 and 2019 are either new discoveries or confirmations of previously-detected candidates, including 6 Jupiter-like gas giants, 10 Neptune-like gas giants, and 43 Earths and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/super-earth-aliens\">Super-Earths<\/a>. A dozen of these latter planets were found to orbit within the stars\u2019 circumsolar habitable zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince it came into operation, CARMENES has re-analyzed 17 known planets and has discovered and confirmed 59 new planets around stars in the vicinity of our Solar System, making a significant contribution to expanding the census of nearby exoplanets,\u201d said Ignasi Ribas, a researcher at the ICE-CSIC and Director of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) who led the study, in a recent MPIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpia.de\/news\/institute\/2023-carmenes-dr1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They include 43 \u201cEarth and Super-Earths.\u201d As of 2015, the Consortium\u2019s purpose has been to look for terrestrial-type exoplanets around nearby red dwarf stars. Since then, the CARMENES instrument has doubled the number of known exoplanets around nearby M-type stars using the Radial Velocity Method. The 59 exoplanets they identified between 2016 and 2019 are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}