Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A planet has been found that appears like cotton sweet. WASP-193b is positioned 1,200 gentle years from Earth and may be very massive, reaching 50% of Jupiter, the biggest planet within the photo voltaic system.
“This planet may be very gentle, so it is vitally troublesome to search out comparable stable materials,” stated the lead creator of the examine from the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, Khalid Barkaoui, quoted from CNN WorldwideFriday (17/5/2024).
WASP-193b is the second gentle planet found up to now. Though the opposite quantity is Kepler 51-d, which is 100 occasions lighter than Jupiter.
Barkaoui defined that the planet is like cotton sweet as a result of it comprises gentle fuel. “Principally this planet may be very flat,” he stated.
The mass of 193-b is just 14% of the mass of Jupiter. Nonetheless, it can take a really very long time to determine.
Mass calculations often use radial velocity strategies, which examine how a star’s spectrum shifts as a planet orbits it. Nonetheless, as a result of it’s so gentle, WASP-193b doesn’t give any attraction to the star.
It took the analysis crew 4 years to gather knowledge and calculate the mass. As a result of the quantity was so low, in addition they needed to confirm it by means of a number of knowledge evaluation assessments.
Even the very low density left researchers incredulous. “At first we acquired a really low density, which was onerous to imagine,” stated one other researcher from the Andalucia Astrophysics Institute in Spain, Francisco Pozuelos.
Barkoui stated it’s nonetheless unclear how WASP-193b was created. It’s even stated that the mannequin for the evolution of fuel giants shouldn’t be sufficient to clarify this phenomenon.
“WASP-193b is essentially the most alien planet of all of the planets found up to now,” he concluded.
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2024-05-20 01:55:00
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