Hubble Telescope owned by the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) managed to find a planet similar to Jupiter.
The discovery of this planet through a fairly long research process. This discovery is expected to help human understanding of the formation of the planet Jupiter, which is often referred to as an unstable disk.
The discovered planet is still in the process of being formed. The planet is covered in a disk of dust and protoplanetary gas with a spiral structure revolving around a young star about 2 million years old. The same age as our solar system when planet formation was taking place.
“Nature is smart; it can produce planets in a variety of different ways,” said Thayne Currie of the Subaru Telescope and Eureka Scientific, the study’s lead investigator. NASA.
The newly discovered planet is named AB Aurigae.
Research shows the planet formed through the gravitational collapse of a gas cloud from top to bottom. Planets generally form in a bottom-up model where planets form from the gradual accumulation of dust and rock.
All planets are formed from material that originates from the disk of stars. The dominant theory for the formation of jovian planets or rocky planets is called “core accretion”.
The process involves the up and down movement of the planets in the disk, starting with small objects that collide and then stick together as they orbit the star. The disk’s core then slowly collects gas from the disk.
Furthermore, the findings of AB Aurigae shed light on the various ways in which planets form, hinting at various models of planet formation in the solar system.
Three times farther than Neptune
Planet AB Aurigae b has a very far distance from the star that houses it, which is 93 astronomical units (SA) or 13.912 billion kilometers. This distance is equal to three times the distance from the Sun to Neptune.
“The spiral arm feature that we observed in this disk is what we would expect if we had a planet with a mass as large as Jupiter or more with this dust structure,” said astronomer Kevin Wagner of the University of Arizona Steward Observatory. Science Alert.
“A large planet must influence their movement to be exactly what we see here,” he added.
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