A photo from open sources PHOTO: Joseph Fourier University Astronomers managed to get pictures of a planet surprisingly similar on Tatooine from the Star Wars saga. Astronomers have taken pictures a planet that resembles Tatooine from the Star Wars saga and Solaris planet from the work of the same name by Stanistav Lem. These studies are published on Phys.org. To find the planet succeeded using the VLT telescope located in Observatory of Chile. Scientists from the French University of Joseph Fourier, compared the data obtained in 2002 and 2012, and made conclusion that the planet revolves around two stars. According to astronomers, it’s hardly suitable for life. The object is 13 times heavier Jupiter, moreover, from both stars it is located 84 times (12.5 billion km) farther than the Earth from the Sun, writes The Atlantic. Close the location of the celestial body to the stars of the system allowed astronomers conclude that this is a planet consisting of gas. The fact is that the capabilities of modern telescopes do not always allow unambiguously classify similar objects. According to scientists, the gas giant formed as a result of gravitational instability in orbit two stars. A system consisting of two red dwarfs, was originally surrounded by a cloud of dust and gas, distribution mass in which was heterogeneous. The cloud later fell apart individual fragments that, under the action of gravity, were pulled together into more dense formations. This contradicts the accretion hypothesis, according to which the formation of the planet occurs due to sticking on a small object, dust and particles are larger. For this planet should be much further from the center of the stellar system. IN September 2011 with the Kepler orbiting telescope was already found a planet that revolves immediately around two stars. By in size and mass, it is approximately equal to Saturn and consists of gas. She makes a complete revolution around her two suns in 229 days. Kepler-16 is 200 light-years from Of the earth. At the same time, scientists suggested that it has conditions for the existence of life. The planet itself is hardly capable shelter life: a cold reigns on it. And here is her natural companion just located in the habitable zone, that is, not too close, but also not too far from the star around which the planet revolves. True, for this the satellite must have a sufficient level greenhouse gases, for example carbon dioxide and methane. Then the climate will be just right for the birth of living organisms, scientists say. “The fact is that the stars give not enough light, so the moon itself needs to be kept warm, “Billy explained. Quarles, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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