Scientists are delighted to discover that a distant, spooky The planets It smells like rotten eggs.
This discovery has not only helped us learn more regarding this extremely hot planet, but this discovery has given us aliens It may also help to find
In a new study, researchers have discovered that The solar system The outer planet HD 89733b is composed of gases and contains small amounts of hydrogen sulfide.
As well as producing an odor, the gas is giving scientists new clues regarding how the sulfur from which planets form may affect the internal structure and atmosphere of planets outside our solar system. .
The planet is regarding 13 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun, and takes only two Earth days to complete an orbit.
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The planet’s maximum temperature is around 927 degrees Celsius and it is known for its severe weather, which includes rain of slanting glass that is accompanied by winds of up to 5,000 miles per hour.
“Hydrogen sulfide is an important gas that we didn’t know existed on the planet,” says Guangwei Fu, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University in the US who led the research.
‘We predicted it would happen and know it Customer but we didn’t know regarding its existence outside the solar system.
‘We are not looking for life on this planet because it is too hot, but finding hydrogen sulfide is an important step towards finding this gas on other planets and learning more regarding the formation of different types of planets.’
New research based on data from Johns Hopkins University’s James Webb Space Telescope has been published in the journal Nature.
HD 189733 b, just 64 light-years from Earth, is the nearest ‘hot Jupiter’. Astronomers can see it passing in front of their star.
Since its discovery in 2005, the planet has become a key planet for detailed studies of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope rule out the presence of methane gas on HD 189733b.
“We were thinking that the planet was too hot to have large amounts of methane gas,” Fu said. Now we know this gas is not there.’
In the future, researchers hope to trace the presence of sulfur on planets outside the solar system and find out how the presence of large amounts of sulfur may affect the formation around their stars.
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2024-07-10 06:51:46