A researcher said of one of the new finds: “It is hard to see how the planet got there!”
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Six ‘very hot’ rocky exoplanets orbiting stars in the local region of the Milky Way hold the key to understanding more about how the Earth was formed, astronomers claim.
Researchers from the Open University have been studying planets discovered by the European Space Observatory’s planet-hunting telescope in Chile.
They are orbiting stars between 160 and 440 light years from Earth and all have hot surfaces with temperatures of around 2,012F to 3,272F.
The new findings could shed light on the geology of Earth and other rocky planets in the Solar System including Mercury, Venus and Mars, researchers say.
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More planetary formation head-scratching…
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Massive gas disk raises questions about planet formation theory
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old and conventional theories of planet formation predict that the gas should have disappeared by that age. The enigmatically large amount of gas requests a reconsideration of our current understanding of planet formation.
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-massive-gas-disk-planet-formation.html
Old models never die. They just keep getting a face lift.
“It is hard to see how the planet got there!” A gross understatement considering it happened way before they were born. Perhaps its the gas that’s interfering with their vision.
“The new findings could shed light..” Not likely. Too dim.
Don’t study planets in our solar system. They are too close 🙂
I can’t help wondering how planets so far away are going to help especially since they can’t send anything there to do actual measurements. The only conclusion I can see is that these astronomers have seen how ‘climate scientists’ are raking in the money and want a slice of that. This has to be their ‘give more money and we will grasp at straws to try and blind you with science’.
Not the way forward with scientific discovery.