Astronomers have discovered the supervisory winds on a giant gaseous planet, which is located over 500 light years from Earth.
In a study published on Tuesday in the magazine Astronomy & Astrophysics, astronomers who study time on the planet since 2016 said the findings show that this is “the fastest wind ever measured in a jet current circulating around the planet.”
“This is something we haven’t seen so far,” said Lisa Nortmann, a scientist at Göttingen University in Germany and the chief author of the study.
Tim said they were mapping time on the WASP-127B planet using Crires+ instrument – consisting of a spectrographer and adaptive optical system – on A very large telescope of the European South Observatory.
The findings have shown that the WASP-127B, which is slightly larger than Jupiter, but only has a fraction of its mass, the jet wind moves almost six times faster than the speed that planet rotates. For comparison, the fastest wind ever measured in the solar system was found on Neptune, moving at a speed of only 0.5 km per second, scientists said.
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The team mapping a surprisingly complex time system on the planet by monitoring the speed of molecules – they noticed a double top, indicating that one side of the atmosphere moves towards us and the other of us at high speed. This indicates that there is a strong wind current circulating around the planet.
Researchers concluded that strong jet winds around the equator would explain this unexpected result and show that the planet has complex time systems like Earth and other planets in our solar system.
“Understanding the dynamics of these exoplanets helps us explore me mechanisms such as the redistribution of heat and chemical processes, improveing our understanding of the formation of planets and potentially throwing the light on the origin of our solar system,” says David Conto, of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and co -author of the work.
From the exoplanets discovered So far, only a few dozen are directly recordedaccording to OUR. Scientists hope that further research will reveal whether young planets have been created in their current location or migrated from another place – and so that they can communicate with each other.
