{"id":155926,"date":"2021-01-15T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-finds-an-alien-planet-with-3-suns\/"},"modified":"2021-01-15T18:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:07:58","slug":"nasa-finds-an-alien-planet-with-3-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-finds-an-alien-planet-with-3-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA finds an alien planet with 3 suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NASA finds an alien planet with 3 suns<\/strong>”
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NASA\u00a0has discovered an\u00a0exoplanet\u00a0with three stars, one with a bizarre orbit that has left astronomers baffled.<\/p>\n

The planet, known as KOI-5Ab was discovered in 2009 by NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope, but it was \u201cabandoned\u201d by scientists because the space telescope had easier candidates to identify.<\/p>\n

\u201cKOI-5Ab got abandoned because it was complicated and we had thousands of candidates,\u201d said David Ciardi, chief scientist of NASA\u2019s Exoplanet Science<\/a> Institute, in a\u00a0statement<\/a>. \u201cThere were easier pickings than KOI-5Ab and we were learning something new from Kepler every day, so that KOI-5 was mostly forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n

KOI-5Ab is app<\/a>roximately 1,800 light-years from Earth. A light-year, which measures distance in space, is approximately 6 trillion miles.<\/p>\n

However, thanks to NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and other Earth-based telescopes, KOA-5Ab has been given new life, with researchers discovering its perplexing orbit.<\/p>\n

Due to its size, KOA-5Ab is likely a gas giant, similar to Jupiter or Saturn, but it circles a star in its star system, KOA-5A, once every five\u00a0days. It\u2019s also out of alignment from at least one of the other two stars and possibly both.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know of many planets that exist in trip<\/a>le-star systems and this one is extra special because its orbit is skewed,\u201d Ciardi added. \u201cWe still have a lot of questions about how and when planets can form in multiple-star systems and how their properties compare to planets in single-star systems. By studying this system in greater detail, perhaps we can gain insight into how the universe makes planets.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, KOI-5A orbit\u00a0KOI-5B each other, once every 30 years. KOI-5C orbits the two once every 400 years, leaving the four celestial objects in a skewed orbit as a result of different planes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear what caused the skewed orbit, though they \u201cbelieve that the second star gravitationally kicked the planet during its development, skewing its orbit and causing it to migrate inward,\u201d the NASA statement added. It\u2019s believed that triple-star systems are roughly 10 percent of all star systems.<\/p>\n

The findings were recently presented at a virtual meeting of the\u00a0American Astronomical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Researchers have discovered other planets with three stars in recent memory. In July 2019,\u00a0exoplanet LTT 1445Ab was\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0to orbit\u00a0one of the three suns, all of which are described as mid-to-late-life red dwarfs.<\/p>\n

In September 2020, researchers\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0that the GW Orionis star system, which is located at the edge of the Orion constellation, has two stars that orbit one another with\u00a0the third orbiting\u00a0the two siblings at a distance of approximately 740 million miles.\u00a0Inside the rings could be dust, or the beginnings of a young exoplanet, which could explain the misalignment of the system\u2019s gravitational pull.<\/p>\n

More than 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered by NASA in total, approximately 50 of which were believed to potentially be habitable as of September 2018. They have the right size and the right orbit of their star to support surface water and, at least theoretically, to support life.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#NASA finds an alien planet with 3 suns” NASA\u00a0has discovered an\u00a0exoplanet\u00a0with three stars, one with a bizarre orbit that has left astronomers baffled. The planet, known as KOI-5Ab was discovered in 2009 by NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope, but it was \u201cabandoned\u201d by scientists because the space telescope had easier candidates to identify. \u201cKOI-5Ab got abandoned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/triple-star-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[89643,5017,5026,70765,67907,5019],"class_list":["post-155926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-15-21","tag-astronomy","tag-nasa","tag-planets","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}