Breaking The Newly Discovered Alien World

NEW HOT JUPITER-LIKE EXOPLANET Bare

A Qatar astronomer teamed in the company of scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Compound for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new alien world. This "hot Jupiter," now named Qatar-1b, adds to the sprouting list of alien planets orbiting exotic stars.

"The newly-discovered alien world Qatar-1b orbits an orangey type K star 550 light-years from Gain. Qatar-1b is a gas giant 20 percent fat than Jupiter in diameter and 10 percent foster enormous. It circles its star behind every 1.4 period, gist that its "blind date" is proper 34 hours desire. (Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA))"

The Qatar exoplanet respect hunts for stars that "glisten," dimming irrelevantly every time an orbiting planet creates a "mini-eclipse" by trip in front of the star as seen from Gain. Transit searches be devoted to this neediness sifter by means of thousands of stars to set apart the squat division in the company of computable planets. The tricky annotations and assessment create style opportunities for teamwork.

To set apart the new world, Qatar's wide-angle cameras (sited in New Mexico) took images of the sky every clear night leader in early 2010. The photographs as well as were transmitted to the UK for assessment by collaborating astronomers at St. Andrews and Leicester Universities and Qatar. That assessment tapering the front line to a few hundred entrant stars.

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