Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Found, Giant Planets Eight Times the Size of Jupiter


New planet 8 times the estimated magnitude of the planet Jupiter [illustration](dailymail.co.uk)

A new world measuring eight times larger than the planet Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system-have been found by an international team of astronomers. 

Launch the Daily Mail, October 8, 2013, the planet named MOA-2011-BLG-322 is when compared to the Earth, the magnitude of 2500 times greater. Yes, very, very large. 

Astronomers believe that a giant planet orbiting at 25,000 light-years away and has a third of the mass of the Sun. 

The discovery of the giant planets using a technique known as 'microlensing'. Technique that uses relatively general theory belongs to Albert Einstein, who showed that the force of gravity is actually emerging from the curvature of space and time.  

Microlensing technique to measure how the light from a very distant and intensified by the gravitational field of a nearby star. 

The position of the light from the planet MOA-2011-BLG-322 was first seen in 2011 by the observations made by astronomers Japan, New Zealand, Poland, and Israel. 

Data from these observations indicate that giant world included in this type of 'M', which is the most common type of giant stars that exist in space. However, the object was later identified as a planet. 

Planet MOA-2011-BLG-322 allegedly orbiting at a distance of four times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. The discovery of giant planets is likely to argue about the theory of the formation of a planet. 



Comparison of Planet Earth and the planet MOA-2011-BLG-322. (Dailymail)

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