Q. Recently, Scientists in India discovered an exoplanet named _

A
Pegasi d
B
Cancri f
C
EPIC 211945201b
D
Epsilon Eridani b
Solution:

Researchers at the Indian Lab have discovered an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system), larger than Neptune but smaller than Saturn, around 600 light years away from Earth. The exoplanet is around 27 times the mass of Earth and has six times the radius of our planet. the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that the name of the planet is EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b. It was also observed that K2-236b completed an orbit around the central star in 19.5 days.

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