Far-flung exoplanet resembles long-sought Planet Nine
astronomy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from astronomy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Planetenbillard - scinexx de
scinexx.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scinexx.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Cette exoplanète « excentrique » aide les astronomes à débusquer l introuvable planète 9
futura-sciences.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from futura-sciences.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scientists from the
University of California, Berkeley and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile performed the first complete orbital measurements on a Jupiter-like exoplanet whose orbit is unusually far from its host stars and the disk of debris around this stellar pair.
The disk is similar to the Kuiper Belt, a doughnut-shaped ring of icy objects located beyond Neptune, and Planet Nine is suspected to be lying far outside of this belt on a similarly strange orbit. While it remains to be seen whether Planet Nine exists, the researchers’ measurements are evidence that such oddball orbits are possible.
“This system draws a potentially unique comparison with our solar system,” said lead author Meiji Nguyen of the