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Discovery of new planet similar to Earth

25 January 2006

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An artist's impression of the newly found exoplanet, 'OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb'. This exoplanet is around 25 000 light-years away from Earth, close to the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It has an orbital period of 10 years and is about three times as far from its parent star as Earth is from our Sun.

Credits: ESO

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An animated artist's impression of the newly found exoplanet, 'OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb'. This exoplanet is around 25 000 light-years away from Earth, close to the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It has an orbital period of 10 years and is about three times as far from its parent star as Earth is from our Sun.

Credits: ESA

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One of Darwin's telescopes that is part of the four-spacecraft flotilla.

Darwin will be a flotilla of four free-flying spacecraft that will search for Earth-like planets around other stars and analyse their atmospheres for the chemical signature of life.

Credits: ESA 2002. Illustration by Medialab.

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