Professor Abhijit Chakraborty and a team at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, in India’s western state of Gujarat, has discovered a super-Neptune size planet around a Sun-like star. The research was published online in the Astronomical Journal of the American Astronomical Society.
The planet which will be known as EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b, goes around its star in 19.5 days. The host star is 600 light years away from the Earth. The surface temperature of the planet is 1,100 °F as it is very close to the host star — 7 times nearer than the Earth-Sun distance.
India is now one of a handful of countries whose astronomers have discovered such exo-planets
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
