PRIANGAN ZONE – Astronomers have discovered a planet the giant who 10 times bigger than Jupiter and orbiting a pair of massive, extremely hot stars, an environment previously deemed too inhospitable for a planet. Scientists have named planet this is “b Centauri (AB)b” or “b Centauri b”.
European Southern Observatory (ESO), which photographed planet this is from his Very Large Telescope in the Chilean desert, saying that planet “B-type” double stars emit large amounts of ultraviolet radiation and high-energy X-rays, both of which have a strong impact on the surrounding gas that would otherwise work against formation. planet.
The stars and planet sits at the center of the solar system in the constellation Centaurus. Planet Centauri (AB) b is an exoplanet, a planet placed outside our solar system. The researchers say their findings suggest that planet could form in much more massive star systems than previous results had believed.
Become 10 times bigger than Jupiter make it one planet largest ever found. The Observatory also said that the orbit planet it is one of the largest ever discovered, 100 times greater than the distance between Jupiter and the sun.
“This great distance from the star’s center pair could be the key to survival planet this,” reads a statement from ESO, quoted by ZonaPriangan.com from NDTV, Saturday, December 11, 2021.
The discovery was made in July and has been officially published in the journal Nature this week.
“This discovery challenges existing models of how planet and stars form,” the researchers wrote in the science journal.
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