Astronomer Stephen Kane from San Francisco State University, US has studied an exoplanet called Wolf 1061c .
It was found that it could be habitable. Its orbit changes at a faster rate unlike Earth, which may cause its climate to be quite chaotic.
His study was focused on finding “habitable zones” where water could exist in a liquid state on a planet’s surface.
The planetary system of Wolf 1061c is located 14 light years away.
One of the three known planets in the Wolf 1061 system, a rocky planet called Wolf 1061c, is entirely within the habitable zone.
When scientists search for planets that could sustain life, they are basically looking for a planet with nearly identical properties to Earth.
According to Kane, life is possible on Wolf 1061c under one possibility - the short time scales over which Wolf 1061c's orbit changes could be enough that it could actually cool the planet off.
Exoplanet: Know More- It is a planet that does not orbit the Sun and instead orbits a different star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf.
- It is also termed as extrasolar planet.
- Starting in 1988, and as of 22 January 2017, there have been 3,565 exoplanets in 2,675 planetary systems.
- Around 602 multiple planetary systems confirmed.
- HARPS (since 2004) has discovered about a hundred exoplanets while the Kepler space telescope (since 2009) has found more than two thousand.
- Kepler has also detected a few thousand candidate planets.
