CHEOPS wykrył egzoplanetę stale zwróconą jedną stroną ku gwieździe centralnej i na dodatek z 3-dniowym rokiem. First study with CHEOPS data describes one of the most extreme planets in the universe2020/09/28
CHEOPS keeps its promise: Observations with the space telescope reveal details of the exoplanet WASP-189b – one of the most extreme planets known. CHEOPS is a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Switzerland, under the aegis of the University of Bern in collaboration with the University of Geneva. (...)
One of the most extreme planets in the universeWASP-189b, the target of the CHEOPS observations, is an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 133112, one of the hottest stars known to have a planetary system. “The WASP-189 system is
322 light years away and located in the constellation Libra (the weighing scales),” explains Monika Lendl, lead author of the study from the University of Geneva, and member of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS.
“WASP-189b is especially interesting because it is a gas giant that orbits very close to its host star. It takes
less than 3 days for it to circle its star, and it is 20 times closer to it than Earth is to the Sun,” Monika Lendl describes the planet, which is
more than one and a half times as large as Jupiter, the largest planet of the Solar system.
Monika Lendl further explains that planetary objects like
WASP-189b are very exotic:
“They have a permanent day side, which is always exposed to the light of the star, and, accordingly, a permanent night side.” This means that its climate is completely different from that of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system. “Based on the observations using CHEOPS, we estimate the temperature of WASP-189b to be
3,200 degrees Celsius. Planets like WASP-189b are called “ultra-hot Jupiters”. Iron melts at such a high temperature, and even becomes gaseous. This object is one of the most extreme planets we know so far,” says Lendl. (...)
First study with CHEOPS data describes one of the most extreme planets in the universe