by New York (AP)-A new Tatooinian planet outside the solar system can circle two failed stars, scientists reported on Wednesday.
The exoplanet is about 120 light years away and seems to go an unusual path around two brown dwarfs and strike around at a right angle. Brown dwarfs are sometimes referred to as failed stars because they are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets. A light year is almost 6 trillion miles.
The brown pair of dwarfs was discovered for the first time ago. Scientists noticed that the twins put each other in the shade, so that you are always partially blocked when they are seen from the earth.
In a new analysis, the researchers found that the movement of the Brown dwarfs changed – a peculiarity that is less likely when they circled each other themselves. Research was published in the Journal Science Advances.
Scientists know about a dozen planets that circle two stars like the fictional “Star Wars” -Seng -Desert Planet Tatooine with double sunsets, which Luke Skywalker calls at home.
The strange orbit of the new planet differentiates it. But it was not directly spied on and scientists say that more research is necessary to ensure that it is out there and found its mass and orbit.
“I would not yet bet my life that the planet exists,” said Simon Albrecht, astrophysicist at the University of Aarhus, who did not play a role in the new study.
By examining these crazy sky organizations, we can help ourselves to understand how conditions outside of our solar system planets can strongly deliver from our own, said the study author Thomas Baycroft from the University of Birmingham.
Planets that circle twin stars “existed in science fiction for decades before we knew that they could really exist in reality,” he said.
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