Astronomers captured images of the planet using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the findings were published in Nature on Wednesday. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has caught a snapshot of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a two-star system visible to the naked eye. And with a distance of 52 billion miles separating b Centauri b from its stars, it has one of the widest orbits ever detected. It’s one of the biggest exoplanets ever discovered. The new exoplanet, b Centauri b, is also a whopper-it probably has a similar gaseous composition to Jupiter, but it’s at least 10 times more massive. Until now, no planet has been found orbiting stars more than three times our sun’s mass. Its main star is more than three times hotter than our sun, and its two stars have a combined weight of roughly 6 to 10 suns. The two stars are so hot and huge that researchers previously thought that no planet could exist around them.ī Centauri sits in the Centaurus constellation, some 325 light-years outside of our solar system.
To which Hostin provided the obvious answer: “He shouldn’t have sent it at all.Astronomers have discovered a massive exoplanet orbiting around the binary star system b Centauri. “What would you rather he say?” she asked. She honed in on his use of the word “Hispanics” and suggested that maybe people of his generation just “don’t know the right words to label a certain group of people.” Raven-Symoné also seemed eager to give Trump a pass on the tweet. “He’ll wither away,” she promised.Īlso Read: 'The View': Rob Reiner Rips Donald Trump's 'Ignorance, Bigotry, Xenophobia, Racism' (Video) This is the first time astronomers have directly observed a planet orbiting a star pair this massive and hot. Raven-Symoné emphatically agreed, brushing off the fact that Trump will very likely win the Republican nomination. This image shows the most massive planet-hosting star pair to date, b Centauri, and its giant planet b Centauri b. The Hill spheres (dashed circles) and habitable zones (nested green circles) of A and B are drawn to scale at periapsis. The two stars are positioned at their approximate present-day separation. (a) Trajectories of -Cen A (red) and B (blue) around their barycenter (×). She added that “the best thing you can do for the world is stop talking about Donald Trump,” referring to the idea that part of reason for Trump’s rise in the Republican primaries was his overexposure in the media. A Model Earth-sized Planet In The Habitable Zone Of Centauri A/B. And as for the photo of her giving him a kiss on the cheek: “I take it back.”
It was a birthday, I was there, I got paid,” she said. Finding a nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere around a watery planet is a very strong indicator of long term biological activity equivalent to photosynthesis. “I just popped out of a cake, you never know who’s on the receiving end. We can already detect some gases in some exoplanets atmospheres if they cross in front of the parent star. When the women turned to guest host Pamela Anderson for some explanation, the actress and model distanced herself from Trump, claiming her appearance at his birthday party was a work opportunity and nothing more. An artist’s impression showing a close up of the planet B Centauri, which orbits the B Centauri system with a mass at least six times that of. “I was offended.”Īlso Read: 'I Love Hispanics!' Donald Trump Proclaims on Cinco de Mayo (Photo) Metro Science Reporter Wednesday 5:00 pm. When the surface pointed toward the parent star, it would have daytime much like our own and when it turned away. Sunny Hostin said when she first heard about the tweet, she thought it had to have come from a parody account. “I was so shocked that he would do something like that,” she said. Days on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A or B would follow a weird alien cycle. “Next week, he’ll be eating a falafel and claiming he loves Muslims,” Behar joked, expressing disbelief that Trump would try to use a Cinco de Mayo tweet about taco bowls to appeal to Hispanic voters. “The View” host Joy Behar tore into Donald Trump on Friday over the Republican candidate’s tone-deaf “I love Hispanics” tweet from Thursday.