Updated July 7, 2016 at 04:16 pm
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astronomers revealed Thursday that there is a planet that has three suns and sunsets every day for several seasons.
this is a strange “new world” in the constellation Centaurus, about 340 light of Earth, due to its three biggest stars, has three sunrises and fully bright days years.
According to the study, published in the journal Science , that one year equals half a millennium on Earth.
Kevin Wagner is the lead author of the finding and said that “seeing a beautiful part of nature that nobody else has seen “so full of emotion.
” I think nature will give us more surprises as we continue exploring, “said Wagner, a doctoral student in University of Arizona in Tucson.
the gaseous world in this giant, officially named Planet HD 131399Ab, has the largest orbit is known in a multisolar system.
These systems with three stars and planets are rare, so it is believed that this is the fifth such discovery.
according to the research, its orbit is twice that of Pluto, or nearly 550 years, our. That is the time it takes to turn it around to the brightest star of your system, a giant sun. The other two rotate one after another, along with his sister.
Orbits like this new exoplanet often are unstable due to the complexity and the changing gravitational pull of the two other suns of the system.
the extrasolar planet has about 16 million years, making it one of the youngest discovered to date.
Its temperature is 580 degrees Celsius and the estimated mass corresponds to four times that of Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet.
” About half of the orbit planet lasts 550 Earth years, three suns are visible in the sky, the two less powerful much more together and variable spacing of the brightest star, “said Wagner.
the existence of the HD 131399Ab is the first discovery of an exoplanet that makes the optical system of VLT Spectro-polarimetric High-contrast exoplanet Research (VLT-SPHERE), one of the most advanced instruments in the world in the search for planets that revolve around other stars
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on June 13, scientists from NASA and the University of San Diego located the largest planet found so now that revolves around two suns in the constellation of Cyngnus, 3,700 light years from Earth
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The planet, named Kepler-1647, is very similar in size and radius of Jupiter.
the discovery was made by using the telescope Kepler and in collaboration with astronomers at the Goddard Space Flight center of NASA.
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