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It's a super Jupiter HR8799e and 129 light years away.
'Super-Jupiter' gas giant 129 light years from Earth is studied for the first time | Daily Mail Online
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'Super-Jupiter' gas giant 129 light years from Earth is studied for the first time | Daily Mail Online
The distant planet has been found to have a stormy atmosphere with swirling clouds made of iron and silicate
- Called HR8799e and was first spotted in 2010 orbiting a star in the Pegasus constellation 129 light years away
- Analysis involved taking the light form four telescopes and and combined them to get the best data
- Light from the planet and its star was filtered apart using a new technique which is the first time it technique has been used to directly study an exoplanet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lriwGrPT6g4
Published on Mar 27, 2019
Artist's impression of the super-Jupiter exoplanet, HR8799e. The GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has made the first direct observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. Calçada) Astronomers have made the first direct observation of a planet outside our solar system with a groundbreaking new technique that combines the light from multiple telescopes. The massive “super-Jupiter” exoplanet, called HR8799e, exists 129 light years from Earth and has an atmosphere with clouds of iron and silicates swirling in a planet-wide storm, according to a statement from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
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