A 'Potato Shaped Planet' Discovered By Astronomers 1,500 Light Years Away From Earth
Astronomers discovered a planet that looks more like a ‘potato’ or a rugby ball and the distance from earth has been counted as about 1,500 Light years from earth.
The name of the planet is WASP-103b has a unique shape due to the proximity of its host star.
Highlighted Facts
- The planet is situated very close to an F- type star in space.
- The planet WASP-103b is only 20,000 miles away from its host star.
- As the earth whose host star is Sun is 90 million miles away from its host star.
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Just as earth, the most planet that we look at the apace of the size of orbs, except Jupiter which has a ring-like structure due to presence of gases in its atmosphere of round shaped but even Jupiter looks like a globe. But do all planets outside of earth look the same as a globe in space so the answer is No.
The research paper reveals a fact about the shape of another planet rather than the shape of the earth. The research says that it is possible that some of the planets may possibly look at the potato.
Recently, astronomers have discovered a planet that has the shape of a Potato named WASP-103b, distanced about 1,500 Light years from earth and its shape is more similar to a potato or a rugby ball.
The Astronomers also told the reason for this planet and is so because of its massive size which is one and a half times bigger than the size of Jupiter and also the nearness to its host star is the reason for its unusual shape.
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The Journal ‘Astronomy & Astrophysics published the study of the planet WASP-103b is only 20,000 miles away from its host star and this develops tidal stresses to pull it into an unlikely shape. In comparison with the distance of earth that is about 90 million miles away from its host star Sun.
As the earth completes the revolution of its host star Sun in one year in the solar system, also there are many planets that take some more or less time to complete the revolution. Similarly, planet WASP-103b takes only 22 hours to complete the revolution of its host star, discovered by astronomers.
“It’s incredible that Cheops was actually able to reveal this tiny deformation,” a co-author of research Jacques Laskar, said in a statement.
The researchers used ESA’s CHEOPSand relied on data from the NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes to reach the conclusion Rugby ball or Potato shape size of newly discovered planet WASP-103b in the space.
