Astronomers have made a sensational find for space research in space.
They discovered a special exoplanet that is closer to our earth than ever before.
Hawaii - A discovery that will make space enthusiasts sit up and take notice.
Last week, a team of astronomers identified a particular planet outside of the local solar system.
Coconuts-2b is only 35 light years away from Earth, making it the closest exoplanet ever to be discovered.
Exoplanet discovered: No one has ever been this close to Earth
The six-person research team led by Zhoujian Zhang observed the planet as part of a large-scale study on the observation of celestial bodies.
Although the existence of the gas giant could already be proven in 2011, the scientists at the University of Hawaii only now made the connection to a star.
The exoplanet had previously been declared a free-flying object.
The astronomers named the newly discovered star system Coconuts-2 and the planet by analogy with Coconuts-2b.
The star itself has about a third of the mass of our sun.
Exoplanet Coconuts-2b has six times the mass of Jupiter
The scientists published their findings on the newly discovered exoplanet in
The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
It says that Coconuts-2b has six times the mass of Jupiter and is considered extremely cool. The extrasolar celestial body orbits its associated star at a distance that exceeds that of the earth to the sun by 6000 astronomical units (AU). In this context, an AE describes the mean distance between the earth and the sun. The reason for the initially incorrect assessment of the astronomers.
Of the multitude of exoplanets already known to science, TYC 9486-927-1b is just another one that is even further away from its star. The effects are amazing. A single orbit is 1.1 million years. There was no visible difference between day and night on Coconuts-2b. In the future, Zhang and his team would like to continue researching such exoplanets as part of the study in order to gain further knowledge about comparable celestial bodies.
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