The oldest planet in the universe means that it was formed billions of years ago. The age of the planet even makes Earth feel young.
There are so many planets in this universe. Eight of them form the solar system in which there is also Earth.
The process of planet formation is different. The time of formation of the planets also varies greatly, some even being much older than the Sun.
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The existence of planets is not only limited to the solar system. There are so many planets outside the solar system that humans are trying to find out where they exist.
Even the planets outside the solar system will tend to be more extreme. Humans have long been interested in digging deeper into planets and other space objects, including those outside the solar system.
Since time immemorial, scientists have been looking for ways to learn more about the planets they found.
The existence of technology that continues to develop now also allows astronomers to observe these planets as well as estimate their age.
With that, astronomers began to figure out what the oldest planets in the universe were. So far, the oldest planets come from exoplanets located outside the solar system.
PSR B1262-26 b is a very old exoplanet. According to the NASA Hubble Space Telescope page, PSR B1262-26 b is estimated to be 13 billion years old.
The existence of PSR B1262-26 b was first detected in 1987. Scientists describe this one planet as a hot version of Jupiter and 2.5 times more massive.
In addition to the oldest planet, PSR B1262-26 b is also the first confirmed circumbinary planet to have orbited around PSR B12620-26 and the white karai WF B1620-26.
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What is the Oldest Planet in the Solar System?
The solar system also has one of the oldest planets in the universe. A research team from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States and the University of Munster in Germany says that Jupiter is the oldest planet.
According to the research team, Jupiter was formed 1 million years after the formation of the Sun about 4.6 billion years ago.
Launching from Space, THomas Kruijer as the lead author on the study stated that Jupiter’s core was formed long before the solar nebula’s gas disappeared.
According to the researchers’ analysis, this giant planet was formed earlier in the history of the solar system. However, the true age of the planet Jupiter has yet to be revealed. The researchers tried to analyze Jupiter’s age by measuring the abundance of molybdenum and tungsten isotopes on the planet.
Jupiter does tend to be young when compared to PSR B1262-26 b. However, Jupiter as a member of the Earth’s solar system is included in the ranks of the oldest planets in the universe that were formed long before Earth existed. (R10/HR-Online)
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