Bulgaria: Scientists Discovered 17 Exoplanets

A team of scientists brought you to light 17. Bulgaria has a team that seeks and finds exoplanets. For more than two years, with the help of the Scientific Research Fund of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, the National Scientific Programme “Vichren” and the Exo-Restart team have already found 17 new exoplanets with data from space and ground telescopes. Dr. Trifon Trifonov is the team leader, said Dr. Vladimir Bozilov, an associate professor at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Sofia, who also participates in the team. Bozilov is among the participants in the ongoing forum “HOMO FUTURO and the life of the 42nd Parallel”, organized by BGlobal magazine, sponsored by BTA. Bozilov focused on the discovery of two twin planets within 1,000 light years of Earth. “There are two planets within 1,000 light years of Earth that are larger than the gas giant Jupiter. Twins were born, except that one planet is closer to its star and makes two orbits around it at the same time that the farthest makes one orbit,” said the scientist explaining that “this kind of behavior is called orbital coordination 2:1. This is just the second such system known in the world.” Discovery is extremely important because it allows confirmation or rejection of planet formation models, as it says. “This is how we rewrite the books with the help of the Bulgarian team of the Exo-Restart program,” Bozilov said, who is more than convinced that the future is secular.