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Indian Scientists At Ahmedabad-Based Center Discover New Planet 600 Light Years Away From Earth
Artist’s conceptual drawing depicts a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the star. (Lynette Cook/NASA/Getty Images)
A team of scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad have discovered a sub-Saturn size exoplanet around a Sun-like star.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the team of scientists on Twitter. He tweeted "Immensely proud of our scientists, who created history by discovering a sub-Saturn size planet 600 light years away from the Earth. Congratulations to them. The discovery puts India among select countries.”
The indigenously designed PRL Advance Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search (PARAS) spectrograph integrated with 1.2m Telescope at PRL’s Gurushikhar Observatory in Mount Abu, played an instrumental role in the discovery.
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