GORAJUARA – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted a young planet orbiting a red dwarf star.
This causes the young planet to change orbit by orbit in an unpredictable way.
The young planet is very close to its parent star, so it experiences a very strong and consistent burst of energy.
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It is known that the young planet evaporated its hydrogen atmosphere which caused plumes from the planet.
Reported from the science.nasa.gov page by GORAJUARA, in one orbit observed with NASA’s Hubble Telescope, the planet looked like it had not lost any material at all.
Meanwhile orbits observed with the Hubble Telescope half a year later showed clear signs of atmospheric loss.
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This extreme interorbital event surprised astronomers because they had never before seen an atmospheric escape that went from undetectable to highly detectable in such a short time.
When detected, the planet’s atmosphere expands in front of the planet like the headlights of a speeding train.
The young planet is located about 32 light years from Earth, where its host star AU Microscopii (AU Mic) hosts one of the youngest planetary systems ever observed.
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The parent star is less than 100 million years old, where the innermost planet has an orbital period of 8.46 days which is only 6 million miles from the host star.
Red dwarf stars like AU Mic are the most abundant stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
2024-02-17 13:19:00
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