Space, the Solar System and the universe have been an endless mystery for humans for centuries. Even if a lot of research is done on it and a new planet, exoplanet, star or any other matter in space is discovered every day, it would not be right to believe that this is the end of it.
Researchers’ new discoveries An exoplanet composed of over 80 percent metal it happened. In terms of composition MercuryThis exoplanet, which looks like , is a kind of discovery similar to known planets that we haven’t seen in a long time. This shows us that the formation process of the Solar System was not unusual.
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GJ 367b contains more than 80 percent metal
First of all, to clarify what an exoplanet is; We can say that it is called planets that are outside the Solar System and in another orbit. This new discovery 30 light years from Earth and Orbiting a red dwarf star named GJ 367 exists.
new planet, NASAof Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite – TESS) was discovered during its mission and GJ 367b was named. TESS displays light beams produced by the impact of an orbiting planet at short intervals. In the data used, a new image was acquired every two minutes for two weeks.
The new exoplanet completes its orbit around its star in a third of a day. GJ 367b has a small volume and a radius one-third that of Earth. However, its mass is more than half that of Earth. This shows that it is heavy compared to its mass. More than 8 grams per cubic centimeter falling, and that means it’s heavier than iron.
GJ 367b is very close to the planet it orbits, meaning it has completed its orbit with only one side facing it. Close to the melting level of iron, since it constantly turns one side 1,745 Kelvin reaches the surface temperature. This raises the possibility of the exoplanet having a rocky surface. But many types of rocks that contain silicon melt at similar temperatures. Researchers are still not entirely sure about this.
The research team transferred the statistics to an artificial intelligence and as a result predicted that GJ 367b has a structure very similar to Mercury. Most of the planet’s contents and surface 85 percentIt is thought that a metal and a metallic core were detected covering the . But the discovered exoplanet has a density 1.5 times that of Mercury.