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CALIFORNIA - The Hubble Space Telescope is finding new planets formed. Extra-solar planets are located in the farthest distance from the parent star, TW Hydrae ie.
TW Hydrae is a red dwarf star that is 176 light years from Earth. Through astronomical measurements, "baby" of the planet is 7.5 billion miles from the star.
Distance 7.5 billion is reportedly equivalent to twice the distance of Pluto to orbit the Sun. Scientists are still studying how the planet can grow, but the star is in the farthest location diorbitnya.
Reported Discovery, Friday (06/14/2013), scientists say that the young planet has a size of six to 28 times larger than Earth. Stars who diorbit new planet is believed to 8 million years old.
Ages 8 million years categorized as stars that are too young to support planets orbiting the star. This star is also small, which is only half the size of the Sun.
Computer models show that the young planet is 7.5 billion miles from the star is 200 times require more time to fully formed. While the planets in the solar system such as Jupiter, took 10 million years to form and is 500 million miles from the Sun.
Baby planet detected indirectly from the gas and dust ring width 41 billion miles surrounding TW Hydrae. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to survey them. The research was published in The Astrophysical Journal.
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