This is Planet WASP 127B! It is a distant gas giant located about 525 light-years from Earth. WASP-127b is like any other giant planet: it is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium. What to do when the gases are hot? They are evolving. Like a hot air balloon, the WASP-127b became the softest known…
Like Earth, most of the planets we know have the same shape. But researchers now say the answer is no, whether all planets, including those outside the Solar System, are spherical. Some planets are also in the shape of potatoes, according to a new study. Researchers have discovered a potato – shaped planet called Wasp-103b…
Exoplanet Search and Study Group, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL Ahmedabad), Prof. Led by Abhijit Chakraborty, a new exoplanet has been discovered orbiting very close to a star 1.5 times the mass of our Sun. The discovery was made using the PRL Advanced Radial-Speed Abu-Sky Search (PARAS) optical fiber-fed spectrograph, the first of its kind in…
Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system.So far, astronomers have identified 4,800 planets orbiting other stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. They are all about 3,000 light-years from Earth. But for the first time, NASA has discovered a planet outside the Milky Way. The discovery was made using NASA’s Lunar X – ray Observatory….
If you ask which planet is most likely to be inhabited by aliens, in a nutshell it is ‘Teegarden B’.The planet will be discovered in June 2019.The fourth closest planet to Earth, similar to Earth, is the most likely planet for extraterrestrial life. The planet orbits the red M-type star. The red star is known…
Coconuts 2b is not a new species of coconut, but an exoplanet outside the Solar System. It is about six times the size of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. So how big is the new planet? The discovery was made by astronomy students…
A planet about the size of Jupiter orbits the Dead Star. This is the first time such a phenomenon has come to the attention of scientists. When a Sun-like star enters its end of life, it leaves a small white core known as the White Dwarf, before the outer layers are pushed away. Observations from…
How long does it take to be a year on earth; Not 365 days, but on the planet WD 1856b, discovered by American scientists, it takes 34 hours, or 10 hours a day a year, that is, if anyone lives there, they have a birthday every day. How many birthday cakes will they have to…
Discovered a planet capable of evaporating iron. It is the hottest man ever discovered in the universe. It is now named WASP-189B. The European Space Agency’s CHEOPS has discovered this with astronomers at the University of Bern using data from the Space Telescope. They studied its orbit, size and temperature. It is 322 light-years from…
