Thursday, May 1, 2014

The researchers examined the length of extrasolar planet … – News 24

Researchers first determined the length of the planet outside the solar system. For the test object Beta Pictoris planet served as found, 63 light years from Earth.

 http://commons. wikimedia.org / wiki / File: HST_betaPictoris_comb.jpg / Public Domain / Photo. Holland Ford (Johns Hopkins University) and Garth Illingworth (University of California at Santa Cruz Beta Pictoris planet’s rotation only lasts eight hours. This is because, with equator of the object moving at a speed of 100 thousand. km / h – according to research VLT.

Beta Pictoris planet orbits the star of the same name. It is located in the constellation Painter. As reported by the service Money.pl has been discovered only six years ago. Beta Pictoris is the closest planet orbiting its star. Its distance to it is eight times greater than that between the Earth and the Sun.

The researchers examined the Beta Pictoris planet too having 20 million years. You could say that it is a young object (the earth is 4.5 billion years old).

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