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Astronomers have discovered two twin water planets in the constellation Lyra

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People’s minds – Astronomers recently discovered its existence Twin planets Contains a lot of water.

NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope discovered twin planets believed to be ‘water worlds’.

From the discoveries of the Kepler telescope, information has been obtained that most of it may be Twin planets It contains water.

These twin planets were later named Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d. Both orbit a star about 218 light-years from Earth Lyra.

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Astronomers were intrigued by the 2014 data from the Kepler space telescope and decided to revisit the two. Twin planets It uses the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

“We previously thought that a planet slightly larger than Earth was a big ball of metal and rock, like an advanced version of Earth, which is why we called it a super-Earth,” said astronomer Bion Benneke of the Université de Montréal. In Canada.

Astronomers also concluded that two Twin planets It turns out to have a lot of water content.

“However, we have now shown that these two planets, Kepler-138c and D, have very different properties and that most of their entire mass is water,” he said.

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