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Yellow sky and iron rain: the new star that confuses scientists | Israel today

2020-05-13T03:00:12.454Z


It is far from us 780 light-years away and its temperature is 1,648 degrees. space


It is far away from us 780 light-years and its temperature is 1,648 degrees.

  • Imaging: NASA

Meet WASP-79b, a star-like star that has a mass of two-and-a-half times the size of our star, which orbits every three and a half days its sun which is a glowing and hotter star than our sun. So far everything seems to be relatively okay, if we study stars, but the special thing about this star is that its sky is yellow - which is very disturbing to scientists.

The star, which is 780 light-years from Earth and confuses scientists for many reasons, is one of the largest ever observed. The reason why the earth's sky is blue, for example, is due to the fact that as the light passes through our atmosphere, parts of it are swallowed and reflected back into the environment at different angles, such as the angles of light in the sawmill, with the diffused color coming to us is the blue color. 

In light of this, even in the remote WASP-79b the atmosphere should have caused those on his land to see blue skies. But it turns out that, contrary to our physics rules, when it comes to scattering light, the color of the visible light from the star's ground is yellow - that is, most of the sun's rays penetrate through the star's atmosphere as if it does not exist. 

This is a real riddle to the world of science that surprised many astronomers who watched the unusual and unique star. "This is the first time we've seen something like this," says Kristin Schusterletter Sutzen of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. "I showed it to some of my colleagues and we were all surprised. We need to investigate this star because it might reveal atmospheric phenomena that we just don't know at all."

Another unique phenomenon that remains currently unexplained is the fact that the orbit of this star orbits its Sun is in complete contradiction to the accepted theories about such stars. That is, the star is moving in the opposite direction from what is expected of it. Because of its proximity to its Sun, the average star temperature is 1,648 degrees Celsius and is one of the largest planets ever seen outside the Solar System. 

In the meantime, another question scientists will try to find out is why there are such planets, giants, whose atmosphere looks clean and the ones that look cloud-covered. According to the observations at present, this justice seems to have almost no clouds, and if there are estimated to be pouring rain of liquid iron on it.

Following the discovery and the special features of the star, a broad research focus will be on the distant star to help understand how sunlight passes through a clean atmosphere, as well as scans to understand the star's chemical structure to understand its unique phenomena and to explain unknown scientific phenomena to the world.

Source: israelhayom

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