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What exactly is a #planet?? 🪐 🤔 Astronomers are proposing a new definition for a planet (again!) nearly 2 decades after we said goodbye 👋🏻 to #Pluto 🥲. And no, the dwarf planet is not coming back. Check out my reporting here: #astronomy Live Science
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Astronomers want to change how we define a planet — again
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Astronomers keep finding planets that shouldn’t exist, and that means we need new models to explain how they form. Even the astronomers who discovered the newfound planet can’t explain how gas giant TOI-4860 b exists. It’s a little smaller than Saturn, but it orbits a small, dim star only a third as massive as our Sun. According to most models of how planets form, that shouldn’t be possible — but try telling that to the gas giant. real-time video's and images for word ref: Release by Dr. Shariff world wonder. spotted the star wobbling slightly, as if it was being tugged at by the gravity of another gas giant, two-thirds more massive than Jupiter, making a wide lap around the star every 427 days. No current models of how planets form can explain how a little star like TOI-4860 could have a giant planet like TOI-4860 b. However, astronomers have found a handful of such worlds in the last few years, creating what Almenara and his colleagues describe as “an interesting challenge to planet formation theory.”
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Astronomers keep finding planets that shouldn’t exist, and that means we need new models to explain how they form. Even the astronomers who discovered the newfound planet can’t explain how gas giant TOI-4860 b exists. It’s a little smaller than Saturn, but it orbits a small, dim star only a third as massive as our Sun. According to most models of how planets form, that shouldn’t be possible — but try telling that to the gas giant. real-time video's and images for word ref: Release by Dr. Shariff world wonder. spotted the star wobbling slightly, as if it was being tugged at by the gravity of another gas giant, two-thirds more massive than Jupiter, making a wide lap around the star every 427 days. No current models of how planets form can explain how a little star like TOI-4860 could have a giant planet like TOI-4860 b. However, astronomers have found a handful of such worlds in the last few years, creating what Almenara and his colleagues describe as “an interesting challenge to planet formation theory.”
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Black holes, regions of immense gravity that even trap light, are some of the cosmos' most bizarre objects. But arguably the strangest among them are primordial black holes (PBHs). Astronomers have hypothesized that PBHs formed when dense, hot regions of space collapsed in the second immediately following the Big Bang. Depending on when they were born in this one-second interval, PBHs are projected to have masses ranging from a hundred-thousandth the mass of a paper clip to that of 100,000 suns. But some scientists believe that PBHs with masses between asteroids like Juno and Eros are the most important because they may be primarily made of dark matter, a mysterious material that glues components of galaxies together. If such a PBH were to encounter Earth, it wouldn't destroy the planet. Yet the new study, published Dec. 28, 2023 on the preprint database arXiv, suggests PBHs should subtly affect objects in the solar system. If "a PBH flies by a planet, it starts that planet wobbling or rocking slightly around the path it was taking before the flyby," the authors wrote in the email. That means the distances of planets from the sun — or from us — will change over time. Measuring these periodic oscillations in distance could reveal a PBH's passage. #cosmos #primordial #blackholes #flyby #planetary #wobble https://lnkd.in/gSFwaN3b
Tiny black holes from the dawn of time may be altering our planet's orbit, new study suggests
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The Same Color Illusion Image Credit: Edward H. Adelson, Wikipedia Explanation: Are squares A and B the same color? They are! To verify this, either run your cursor over the image or click here to see them connected. The featured illusion, an example of the same color illusion, illustrates that purely human perceptions in science may be ambiguous or inaccurate, even such a seemingly direct perception as relative color. Similar illusions exist on the sky, such as the size of the Moon near the horizon, or the apparent shapes of astronomical objects. The advent of automated, reproducible measuring devices such as CCDs have made science in general and astronomy in particular less prone to, but not free of, human-biased illusions. #PhoenixDelivers #Illusion #nasa
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Astronomers spot oldest 'dead' galaxy yet observed A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have spotted a 'dead' galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such galaxy ever observed. This galaxy appears to have lived fast and died young: star formation happened quickly and stopped almost as quickly, which is unexpected for so early in the... Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dAXYxsrJ . . Like 💝 Comment below ⏬ Share ✅ For More Such Updates Follow Us @qnewshub @qnewscrunch . . #qnewshub #qnewscrunch #Science
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Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) ; Acknowledgement: Xavier Jubier Explanation: In late 2021 there was a total solar eclipse visible only at the end of the Earth. To capture the unusual phenomenon, airplanes took flight below the clouded seascape of Southern Ocean. The featured image shows one relatively spectacular capture where the bright spot is the outer corona of the Sun and the eclipsing Moon is seen as the dark spot in the center. A wing and engine of the airplane are visible across the left and bottom of the image, while another airplane observing the eclipse is visible on the far left. The dark area of the sky surrounding the eclipsed Sun is called a shadow cone. It is dark because you are looking down a long corridor of air shadowed by the Moon. A careful inspection of the eclipsed Sun will reveal the planet Mercury just to the right. You won't have to travel to the end of the Earth to see the next total solar eclipse. The total eclipse path will cross North America on 2024 April 8, just over one week from today. #PhoenixDelivers #nasa
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We know that the universe is expanding. But how? Astronomer Edwin Hubble used the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson, California, to study the night sky. He found that some of the nebulae-fuzzy, luminous specks in the night sky are in fact galaxies, like our Milky Way (although the galaxies could be of widely varying sizes), each containing billions and billions of stars. And he discovered a remarkable fact: other galaxies appear to be moving away from us, and the further they are from us, the faster their apparent speed. Suddenly, humanity's universe became much, much larger. The Universe is expanding: distances between galaxies are increasing with time. The Universe can be thought of as the surface of a balloon on which one has painted blobs to represent galaxies. If one blows up the balloon, the blobs or galaxies move away from each other; the further apart they are, the faster the distance between them increases. LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gAPAaFqW Discord: https://lnkd.in/g2evFJyF Tags: #science #physics #astronomy #astrophysics #space #spacescience #fact #sciencefact #physicsfact #astronomyfact #spacefact #education #stem #scienceandtechnology #community #bigbang #bigbangtheory #theory #universe
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A team of astronomers have identified a unique and puzzling planet known as WASP-193b that has a density similar to cotton candy. The planet is larger than Jupiter in size (around 50%) but only has a tenth of its density, making it the second lightest planet among the 5,400 discovered to date, with the Neptune-like Kepler 51d being the lightest. These enigmatic characteristics pose an array of challenges to our current understanding of planet formation. #SpaceNews #PlanetFormation #SpaceDiscovery #WASP-193b https://bit.ly/4aoPsS6
MIT astronomers discover giant, superlight 'WASP-193b' planet
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If anything space-related fascinates you, here is an update! 🥏 Astronomers Find The Biggest Known Batch Of Planet Ingredients. 🥏 Astronomers have made a groundbreaking find that's rewriting our understanding of planet formation. 🥏 Get ready for these mind-blowing details: Telescopes in Hawaii detected a colossal disk of gas and dust swirling around a young star 1,000 light-years away. 🥏 This disk is a staggering 3,300 times the distance between Earth and our Sun, making it the largest known reservoir of planet-building materials! 🥏 Dubbed IRAS 23077, the disk's butterfly-like shape suggests the birth of potentially supersized planets in distant orbits. 🥏 Scientists believe studying this cosmic nursery will unlock secrets about the origins and evolution of worlds beyond our solar system. 🥏 As telescopes like Hubble and Webb investigate this phenomenon further, we may witness the incredible formation of Jupiter-sized planets or even larger cosmic bodies emerging from IRAS 23077! 🥏 The Universe never ceases to amaze with its grand mysteries and wonders. 🥏 This cosmic discovery reminds us of the vast unknown that still awaits exploration. #Astronomy #PlanetFormation #CosmicDiscovery #SpaceExploration #IRAS23077 Source: https://lnkd.in/gzADr2fr
Astronomers find the biggest known batch of planet ingredients swirling around young star
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