Petersburg, astronomers have found a second planet in the Alpha Centauri – BFM.Ru

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The staff of the Pulkovo Observatory discovered a second planet orbiting Alpha Centauri – the nearest star to the Sun. ITAR-TASS. Read also: In space, found alcohol clouds

Despite the fact that the planet is not seen from Earth through a telescope, scientists have calculated its intended location. According to calculations, the orbit of the planet is out of life – so the distance to the star, where the water does not freeze and does not evaporate. Between the planet and the Alpha Centauri about 80 astronomical units (the distance from the Earth to the Sun). One revolution of the planets round the world takes 100 Earth years. The first planet in the Alpha Centauri system was discovered in 2012, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory.

Earlier it was reported that NASA astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a dwarf galaxy at a distance of 50 million light years from Earth.