4 Rocky, Earth Like Planets Orbiting Our nearest Sun Like Star: - Tau Ceti

4 Rocky, Earth Like Planets Orbiting Our Nearest Sun-Like Star : - Tau Ceti.

-Crazy Facts Of Cosmology.

A team of astronomers discovered that four Earth like planets orbit the nearest sun like star "Tau Ceti" a star visible to the naked eye!

Sun like stars are thought to be to be the best targets in the search for habitable Earth like planets due to their similarity to the sun. Unlike more common smaller stars, such as the red dwarf stars  Proxima Centuari and Trappist-1.

Tau Ceti is only 12 light years away from Earth, just three times as far as our sun's nearest stellar neighbor Alpha Centuari.

Tau Ceti is very similar to  the sun in its size and brightness, and both stars host multi planet system.

Astronomers have discovered may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti. The closest single star beyond our solar system whose  temperature and luminosity nearly match the Sun's.

The planets sizes aren't known yet , but they're estimated to have about 1.7 times the Earth's mass.

Two things make this particular discovery stunning to astronomers.

First : - our solar system is the only place we know where life exist, it means that sun like stars maybe the best places to look for life.

Second : - It's incredibly difficult to spy a relatively tiny planet in the figurative shadow of a sun like star.