An international team of scientists announced the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet, which is located at a distance of 72 light-years from us. She received the designation K2-415b, Space reports.. com.

The exoplanet revolves around the red dwarf K2-415, it was found in the archival data of the Kepler telescope, and the discovery was confirmed using data from the TESS telescope. Although K2-415b is not the closest exoplanet to Earth, by space standards, it is very close to us..

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It is noted that only four stars are known to be colder than K2-415, around which, according to available data, at least one exoplanet rotates.. This includes the famous TRAPPIST-1, which has seven known exoplanets..

Red dwarfs are much smaller and colder than our Sun.. The surface temperature of K2-415 is believed to be 2900 degrees Celsius (the temperature of the Sun is 5480 degrees Celsius).

The planet K2-415b is not in the habitable zone of the star, where the existence of water in liquid form is possible.. It is so close to the star that it completes an orbit around it in just four Earth days.. However, it is possible that there is another planet in the system, which may be located in the habitable zone.

Astronomers have previously proposed a classification of planetary systems, dividing them into four categories based on the size and location of their planets.. And she showed that the type of our solar system is the rarest.