43 minutes agoThe newest planet ever found
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(5 years ago)An international team of astronomers have discovered one of the youngest specimens ever found. The planet “poranded” moves around a distant star “Baby” on the Culud Demi and the discovery is done with the KEK Observatory telescope in Hawaii. Thousands of specimens have been discovered so far, but what distinguishes this planet, [...]
Thousands of specimens have been discovered so far, but what distinguishes this planet, called 2M0437b, is that it is very young and can also be seen directly from the earth.
Astronomers were able to photograph him with the Subaru telescope on Mount Maunakea in Hawaii.
The eclipse is estimated to have a mass several times greater than Jupiter and was created along with its mother star, several million years ago, about the time the main islands of Hawaii emerged from the ocean. The planet is so young that it is still hot from energy released during its creation, with a temperature similar to the clan spilled by the volcano Kilauea, reports abcnews.al.
The distance from the star is about 100 times the Earth- Sun distance. Future observations with the release of the great American space telescope James Webb, the descendant of Hubble, will shed more light on whether the planet has an atmosphere and what kind.
