All of the planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun, those planets that orbit around other stars are called extra solar planets or exoplanets.
They are very hard to see directly with telescopes as they are hidden by the bright glare of the stars they orbit.
So, astronomers use other ways to detect and study these distant planets.
They search for exoplanets by looking at the effects these planets have on the stars they orbit.
According to NASA, Super Earths are quite common in our galaxy and these planets can be up to 10 times more massive than Earth. .
Recently astronomers got success when they found a rare new Super-Earth planet towards the centre of the galaxy.
The planet is one of ‘only a handful of extra-solar planets that have been discovered with both size and orbit comparable to that of Earth.
According to the researchers, the planet’s host star is about 10% the mass of our Sun.
The Super Earth planet’s mass would be somewhere between that of Earth and Neptune, and would orbit at a location between Venus and Earth from the parent star.
The planet’s ‘year’ would be of approximately 617 days.
