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Egypt News | Science and Technology / Astronomers discover an exoplanet on a collision course

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of an exoplanet whose orbit is deteriorating as it orbits an ancient star. The doomed planet, first detected by the Kepler space telescope, is on a collision course with its expanding star, eventually destroying it, according to scitechdaily.

Provides exoplanet discovery Solar Group Decaying its orbit as it orbits an ancient star provides new understanding of the gradual process of planetary orbital decay by providing the first glimpse of a solar system in its final stages, and the fate of the star it devours is believed to be the final fate of many planets, including Earth in about 5 billion years, according to For scientists, the exoplanet Kepler-1568b There are 3 million years left before he meets his end.

said Ashley Chontos, Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan Astrophysics at Princeton University: “Theorists have predicted the fate of stars and their planets for decades, but we’ve never had observations to test them against. We can also think about this in terms of our solar system, how long Earth will survive once the sun fuses all the hydrogen into helium.” We have some ideas, but in the end it’s hard to tell, these single-planet systems are really important to help solidify these different theories.”

Dated: 2023-01-27


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