Experts find 3 new planets on the verge of destruction because they are too close to their stars

Experts find 3 new planets on the verge of destruction because they are too close to their stars

Experts find 3 new planets on the verge of destruction because they are too close to their stars

Three recently discovered planets orbit dangerously close to their stars, whose life cycle is nearing an end. 01.17.2022, Sputnik, Brazil

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Of the thousands of exoplanets found to date, these three gas giant planets, discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Space Telescope (TESS), have one of the shortest orbital periods around giant or giant stars. To give you an idea, one of the planets, TOI-2337b, will be devoured by its host star in less than a million years, the shortest time period of any other planet currently known. “These observations offer new windows in [analisar] Planets are nearing the end of their lives, before their host stars can swallow them.” Grunblatt announced at a press conference of the American Astronomical Society the discovery and confirmation of these planets – TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b and TOI-2669b. The study has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal and available on arXiv. The researchers estimate that planets have masses between 0.5 and 1.7 the masses of Jupiter and their sizes range from slightly smaller to larger.1.6 times the size of Jupiter.These celestial bodies also have a wide range of densities, from similar to styrofoam to three times the density of water, Suggesting a variety of origins. These three exoplanets are believed to be just the tip of the iceberg, EurekAlert writes! “We hope to find dozens to hundreds of these advanced transiting planetary systems using TESS, which will provide us with new details about how the planets interact With each other. “Others are magnifying and migrating around stars, including those similar to our sun,” said Nick Saunders, co-author of the study and a graduate student at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.

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