Surprising Discovery: Massive Exoplanet Found Orbiting Multi-Star System – A Breakthrough in Direct Imaging

2023-09-19 15:03:48
Astronomers made an unexpected discovery when they reanalyzed images taken by one of the largest telescopes in the world. The Very Large Telescope in Chile was able to image a planet orbiting a star in a multi-star system located regarding 480 light-years from Earth. According to the “space” website, the exoplanet, which is 15 times larger than the largest planet Jupiter in our solar system, orbits around a small star that itself orbits around a larger star. The star system, called HIP 81208, has been known to astronomers for a long time, but the presence of an exoplanet in the orbit of the smaller star came as a surprise to astronomers who re-examined images of the system taken earlier by the European Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Southern (ESO) in Chile. The newly discovered exoplanet is also very massive, and ESO said in a statement that the team’s discovery represents the first pyramidal quadrilateral system to be found using direct imaging, as most exoplanets are discovered through the so-called transit method, which involves monitoring minute dips in brightness. The star caused by the passage of a planet in front of its disk from the observer’s point. As for direct imaging, it requires very powerful telescopes and ultra-sensitive cameras to see planetary objects directly, and in the re-analyzed images, astronomers from the Paris Observatory discovered that the giant exoplanet forms a bubble in the ring of light surrounding its parent star. This discovery will help astronomers advance their understanding of the formation of complex systems, ESO said in the statement.
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