Alien Anomalies

gbull · Veteran Member

RE: First pics of faraway planet confirmed

Software_Pyrate · Veteran Member

Ya...I'm not an astro physis....

But I wonder what is the furthest "out" something could be from a star like ours before its orbital pattern becomes unstable----i.e.fly out into space

85% the mass of our sun...and yet orbits nearly ten times further out than our "pluto" does.

Interesting indeed.

One single drop · Senior Member

Estimated temperature: 1500 o C.

Orbit: 300 AU s out of its parent star.

Size ( not mass) : Eight times the size of jupiter.

Host star: A young star with an estimated mass of about 85 % of our sun.

300 AE s does not say that much about the real orbit.
Would be interesting to get the complete orbit datas ( Aphel- Perihel ).
Anyway , 300 AU s related to a 1500 o C surface-athmosphere- temperature sounds strange.

Software_Pyrate · Veteran Member

Some would argue that due to the huge "orbit" it still needs further study. I would agree, but would not dismiss it merely and purely on the fact of orbit alone

Edit: I tried quoting an outside source but as you can see, I screwed up.....(wish i had edit)

Software_Pyrate · Veteran Member

First pics of faraway planet confirmed

Astronomers say they have confirmed the first ever direct image of a planet orbiting a Sun-like star.

Scientists led by Dr David Lafreniere from the University of Montreal in Canada say the planet, about eight times the size of Jupiter is circling the Star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 which is about 500 light years away in a group of young stars called the Upper Scorpius Association which formed about five million years ago.

The planet orbits 300 astronomical units out from its parent star. That's some 300 times further out than the Earth is from the Sun and 10 times further out than Pluto.

First reported in 2008, the confirmation will be published in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

Scientists used the Gemini telescope to conduct further observations, confirming the planet and star were indeed moving through space together

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Hot world

The planet has an estimated temperature of about 1500 degrees Celsius, making it much hotter than Jupiter, which has an atmospheric cloud-top temperature of about -110 degrees Celsius.

The host star has an estimated mass of about 85 per cent that of our Sun."