2011年8月27日土曜日

"Diamond" Planet Found

from National geographic news

It's said that they found new planet orbits the pulsar so closely the entire system would fit inside the sun.

An exotic planet as dense as diamond has been found in the Milky Way, and astronomers think the world is a former star that got transformed by its orbital partner.

The odd planet was discovered orbiting what's known as a millisecond pulsar—a tiny, fast-spinning corpse of a massive star that died in a supernova.

Astronomers estimate that the newfound planet is 34,175 miles (55,000 kilometers) across, or about five times Earth's diameter.



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2 件のコメント:

  1. Usually I feel The Earth is so large, but actually space is larger and wider than The Earth. Whenever I hear the news of space, I think there are a lot of things what I still don't know. And when seeing from space, my worries and troubles may be little things...

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  2. That's true ....we can think it small around my problems compared to the largeness of the Universe.
    It's said that no one would fight or take place war if he learns astronomy to learn about the stars in the space.

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