Indian scientists discover an 'EPIC' exoplanet
Source: NASA / European Southern Observatory
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A team of Indian scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory led by Prof Abhijit Chakraborty in Ahmedabad has discovered a planet outside our solar system. This planet is at a distance of around 600 light years. The planet was discovered using the 'PARAS' spectrograph integrated with a 1.2m Telescope. PARAS is an acronym for the PRL Advance Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search spectrograph located in Mount Abu in Rajasthan. The planet has been named EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b. We spoke to Indian-Australian Astrobiologist and postdoctoral researcher at ANU, Dr Aditya Chopra, to know more about this discovery.
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