Exoplanet Gliese 581d – Artist’s impression
Video showing a zomm into the Gliese 581 system, where yoy may find the exolanet Gliese 581 d, which orbits its host star in 66.8 days. According to experts of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Gliese 581 d is probably too massive to be made only of rocky material, so they speculate that it is an icy planet that has migrated closer to the star. The new observations were made with the HARPS exoplanet hunter and have revealed that the planet is in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. The video sequences were made by ESO/L. Calçada, and released under an Attribution-Unported 3.0 Creative Commons License. Music by Butterfly Tea, song’s name: “African Dream”, released under an Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike, 3.0 Creative Commons License.
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