Monday, 21 August 2023 – 20:45 WIB
VIVA West Java – Since astronomers first looked outside the solar system three decades ago to find exoplanets, space objects have likely varied in width and mass.
However, how big are these planets and what are the largest planets that we know of?
According to the Live Science page written on Thursday (17/8/2023), before 1992, when the first exoplanet was discovered, the gas giant Jupiter, which is about 11 times the width of Earth, held the title of the largest known planet.
But Jupiter still pales in comparison to some of the monster worlds that have been discovered since.
There are two things to consider when determining the size of a planet. First is the width (twice the radius) and the mass.
“The largest exoplanet has a planetary radius about twice the radius of Jupiter. It is an extreme object that orbits very close to its parent star,” said Solene Ulmer-Moll, a postdoctoral exoplanet researcher at the University of Geneva.
2023-08-21 13:45:00
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