Scientists find ‘unusual’ giant gas planet, these are various oddities

Astronomers observe Planet AB Aurigae b which is still in the “birth” stage.

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Astronomers are observing the Planet AB Auriga b which is still in the “birth” stage. It is 9 times the mass of the planet Jupiter and formed in an unusual process.

Planet gas raksasa AB Aurigae b is categorized as an infant planet, according to the life stages of a planet. This is a planet that was still in very early formation, when astronomers discovered it.

Nine times the mass of the planet Jupiter, the distance to its parent star is very far, and opens new challenges related to understanding so far about how planets form.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System with a mass of about 320 times the mass of planet Earth. Jupiter has a very large mass in the Solar System. Even if all the masses of the planets in the system were combined, they would still weigh about two and a half times the total mass of the planets. However, the discovery of the gas giant planet AB Aurigae b makes Jupiter like a small gas balloon.

“We suspect this planet is still in the early stages of the birth process,” astrophysicist Thayne Currie of the Subaru Telescope and the NASA Ames Research Center told Reuters. Nature Astronomy.

“Evidence suggests this is the earliest stage of the formation of a gas giant planet that has ever been observed,” said the astrophysicist.

The gas giant planets have small solid cores, and are formed from enormous masses of gas, usually hydrogen and helium rotating around their cores.

The Solar System has two gas giant planets, Saturn and Jupiter. While other planets such as Mars or Earth are called rock planets.

sumber : DW

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