Astronomers have discovered a giant planet that should not exist

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the Opening of Spanish astronomers could change our understanding of the formation of planets around small stars.

The Spanish resort town of Costa de Almeria is famous not only for the scorching sun, sea and breathtaking landscapes. There is located one of the largest universities of Spain — University of almería, part of which is Kalar Alto. Recently, with the help of the Carmenes instrument, researchers have discovered a giant planet, dubbed GJ 3512b. This discovery may force scientists to rethink common point of view about the formation of planets.

Mysterious planet similar to Jupiter

An international research consortium led by Spanish astronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet that orbits around a small star — red dwarf — at the distance of 31 light-years from the Solar system. The mass of the discovered planet makes it special — the fact that it is much more than predicted by the theoretical model. A study published in the journal . The mass of a red dwarf is only one-tenth the mass of the Sun. According to the authors of the study, around such stars should rotate only planets the size of Earth or . But not anymore.

The Mysterious planet was discovered by a Spanish-German research consortium called Carmenes. The aim of Carmenes is to detect planets around the smallest stars in space. For it was built a new instrument, which was installed in the Observatory Kalar Alto in the University of almería, at an altitude of 2100 m. Note that the research is conducted under the scientific leadership of the Institute of astrophysics of Andalusia.

the Observatory Kalar Alto, almería

In the process of observing the red dwarf star, scientists have discovered that this little star is regularly moved to and from us — this phenomenon is caused by the closest to the star by a massive object. Since the discovery was unexpected, the scientists contacted by the research team from the University of Bern (Switzerland), as well as one of the world's leading experts in the field of the theory of formation of planets of Christophe mordasini to discuss probable scenarios for the formation of giant gas giant.

How formed giant planet?

A Few years ago, NASA announced to the world about the amazing discovery of the star system called . Recall that around small stars are the seven planets. Initially, scientists assumed that some of the planets of this star system can be potentially habitable, but subsequent observations have not confirmed this. Spanish astronomers used the same model for the detection of small stars and planets around them, as in the case of Trappist-1. The fact that this model of formation and evolution of planets predicts that around small stars formed a large number of small planets. However, in the case of GJ 3512b, things are different.

A Possible explanation for the failure of the theory of small stars and small planets could be the mechanism that underlies the theoretical model. According to her, the planets are shaped by gradual growth of small bodies into larger ones. Experts call this the "ascending process." Maybe giant planet GJ 3512b, similar in size and composition , was formed a fundamentally different way, the so-called gravitational collapse — it occurs when part of the gas disk in which the planets formed, collapses under its own gravitational forces.

On the image of gas giant GJ 3512b. The planet is outside the habitable zone — zones, remote from the star so that there can be formed a life

But even this explanation does not solve the question of the formation of the so big of the planet. Indeed, in this case, the planet should continue to increase in size and migrate closer to the star. Thus, the planet GJ 3512b — this is an important discovery, which should improve our understanding of how planets form around small stars.

Scientists believe that the type of the solar system in which discovered GJ 3512b, rare: team analysis suggests that only around 3% of young stars can rotate the gas giants. In most cases, the environment of such stars are small . Scientists believe that the discovered exoplanet demonstrates that the model of gravitational instability could play a key role in the formation of giant planets.

Researchers will continue to follow an unusual star system to learn more about the potentially existing second planet, which is similar to Neptune. Also, experts do not exclude that the planets around a red dwarf may be more. Besides, in the search for exoplanets experts studying another 300 such stars. What do you think, will inhabit one of these worlds? To discuss this amazing discovery with the participants .

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