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Astronomers of the European Southern Observatory first recorded the birth of an extrasolar planet. This is reported on the Observatory’s website.
Researchers registered a newborn planet that’s still forming around the young dwarf star PDS 70. Using a Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in Chile, and an optical planet-hunting instruments SPHERE, for studying exoplanets, astronomers observed PDS 70b, a gas giant whose mass is several times greater than Jupiter. The temperature on the surface of the planet reaches 1000 ° C – this is much hotter than any of the planets of the solar system.
It is located roughly three billion kilometres from the central star, roughly equivalent to the distance between Uranus and the Sun. Its formation began in the the disk of gas and dust around the star, where planets can form.
Scientists believe that the study of PDS 70b will allow to understood early stages of planetary evolution.
As «The Journalist» reported earlier, in a result of powerful storm on Mars, the Opportunity rover fell into an anabiosis.
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