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Giant planet discovered where it should not exist
Topic Started: Dec 10 2013, 07:56 PM (151 Views)
CJ
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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-gigantic-alien-planet-discovered-where-it-shouldnt-be-20131205,0,5223068.story#axzz2mhzwP2aV

A massive planet found orbiting a star at a staggeringly great distance is smashing some long-held theories of planetary formation, researchers say.

The planet, according to a study published online Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, is unlike anything in our own solar system.

Eleven times more massive than Jupiter, planet HD 106906 b orbits a single sun-like star at a distance of 60 billion miles - about 650 times the distance Earth is from our own sun.

"This system is especially fascinating because no model of either planet or star formation fully explains what we see," said study coauthor Vanessa Bailey, an astronomy graduate student at the University of Arizona.

Researchers estimate the planet is very young, just 13 million years old, and the residual heat from its formation can be seen from Earth as infrared energy. Researchers used infrared cameras and the Magellan telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile to capture images of the planet.



Wow - I'd be very interested to learn what the actual cause of this is, and how the science of planetary systems has to be revised. Who knows - maybe we have one of these extremely distant planets around our own star :P ?
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That must be a really big star e_e
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CJ
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Well, the star is described as "sun-like", so I get the impression that it's not too big.
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Well what do we really know about outer-space?

We're still learning so a lot of things are going to be out of the ordinary, this is just a correction and we can learn from that
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