Remains of baby planets “killed” by Jupiter were detected, captured moments when a star destroyed planets around it. And in the center of the Milky Way, a mysterious spiral object revolving around itself was discovered…
With the development of space observation technologies, the number of important discoveries in space has increased. Now solar system We are no longer so surprised when an unusual planet is discovered outside of the United States. Still, it’s very exciting to take a look at current developments…
Evidence that Jupiter, the Solar System’s largest planet, is a “planet killer”, the discovery of a spiral object at the center of the Milky Way, and a star destroying planets around it are just developments announced in the last 24 hours is among.
1. For the first time in history, the moments when a star destroyed the planets around it were recorded:
If our star, the Sun, dies one day, what will happen to the planets around it? The answer is simple, shattered…. However, this fragmentation It has a mass about 8 times as dense as the Sun. In the case of white dwarfs, it happens not just in the way giant rocks turn into grains of sand, but also chemically.
86 light years from Earth G238-44 The code-named star is in that explosive phase we’re talking about right now. This is such an explosion that it has a structure that brutally slaughters the planets around it, swallows them and absorbs their materials. For those who don’t know, let’s remind that a white dwarf star grows, expands and destroys the celestial objects in its vicinity before it explodes. In addition, when we say “explosion”, this event is not an instantaneous event that comes to mind, but because it is astronomical in size, it takes place rather slowly compared to our perception of time.
A diagram created based on the scientific data above. It absorbs the asteroid belt around the left white dwarf:
Of course, it will be time for other planets you see. According to the astronomers who made the discovery, it is the first time in history that a white dwarf star has been observed that absorbs objects and materials at both near and far distances. When all the materials it can absorb around the star are exhausted, it will turn into a red giant and the expected end will come true with a great noise. This process is also true for our star, the Sun. in a few billion years It is expected to happen and turn into a giant big enough to swallow Mars.
2. The star above isn’t the only thing swallowing the planets around it, but Jupiter’s past crimes have also come to light:
Jupiter, as you know, is a planet made up of condensed gases. Even so in Storms big enough to fit 8 Earths We do not yet know whether there is an earth under its atmosphere. In other words, we can think of this giant planet as dense gases trapped inside the glass sphere.
As a matter of fact, as a result of its high gravitational power due to its size, there are currently 16 satellites in its vicinity whose existence has been definitively determined. Some of these satellites As big as Mars and Earth, so they’re almost planet-sized. But it is also known that there were more than these planet-satellites before. So what happened to them, why did they disappear?
As Jupiter expands, new findings show destroying “baby” planets, swallows. In fact, the remains of these planets were found for the first time within the scope of the research. It seems that Jupiter will continue to be the most mysterious planet in the Solar System due to its structure.
3. A strange object has been discovered rotating in the center of the Milky Way: Is there a “galaxy” at the center of the galaxy?
Astronomers observing the center of the Milky Way have discovered a strange spiral-shaped structure around a star. Close to the extremely dense center of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years from Earth, this structure is known to be a young star. The diameter of the gas and dust cloud around the star is also the distance between the Earth and the Sun. about 4000 times recorded as.
According to the findings, star structures with such disks are quite common in the universe. around them gas and dust cloud It shows that you are a young star. However, this newly discovered object, which is close to the center of our galaxy, is located in a very dangerous region. In fact, researchers are wondering how the object was formed in such a region where the gravitational force is extremely strong.
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