They discover a planet that orbit to a star very similar to the Sun
A team of Canadian scientists obtained an image of a planet outside our Solar System that turns around a star very similar to the sun. All the near 300 planets almost called extrasolar shortages to date have been detected using indirect methods, such as changes observed in a star when a direct planet orbit in front of this one from the point of view of the Earth.
But in the announced discoveries Monday, the scientists of the University of Toronto said to have used the telescope Gemini North de Mauna Kea in Hawaii to take direct photographies from the planet, that is more or less as large as Jupiter although with eight times its mass, also is much more warm that Jupiter, said.
The planet and the star that seems to orbit are located in our Milky Route to near 500 years light of the Earth, said the scientists. A year light trillones of kilometers is near 10, or the distance that the light travels in a year.
Less visible
It has always been the goal taking photographies from a planet around another star. The challenge, by all means, is that the planets are much, much less visible that the stars, said in a telephone interview Ray Jayawardhana, one of the scientists.
Of all the known extrasolar planets, this he is the one that orbit to more distance of its star. In relation to her, the one of Neptune with the sun, is located approximately with a distance of approximately 11 times the most moved away of planets of our Solar System, explained the scientists. The specialists said to be working to confirm that the planet is in fact turning around this star as it seems, although could take about two years obtaining that information.
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