Wednesday, 7 June 2017

NASA Finds a Planet Kelt-9b

   NASA finds a planet named KELT-9b revolving around the Star KELT-9 is evaporating its material like a comet. This planet was discovered by Ohio state university. This is the brightest gas giant star ever discovered and 300 million years older. The planet Kelt-9b is 2.8 times larger than the planet Jupiter. It revolving around the star and evaporates its material like a planet. Scientist predict that the planet would have larger radius and have been decreased due the evaporating ability. This Blue type star whose temperature is around 4600 Kelvin. It is one of the major discovery like the past TRAPPIST-1 system. Scientists saw this planet through NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. Eventually James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2018 and it contributed a little to this discoveries.

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