The planet that should not exist It was discovered by an international team of scientists, led by astronomer Marc Hon of the University of Hawaii. The work of this group of academics is investigate the search for exoplanets.
Representation of the exoplanet, according to NASA.
The planet called Ursae Minoris Bis located about 530 light years from Earth, and turns out to be a real mystery for science, since it orbits around a dying star that should have engulfed any nearby celestial body, as if it were a black hole.
Through a statement, NASA explained that this formation remains in a stable and almost circular orbit, something that actually has a literally astronomical chance of existing.
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The impossible planet: what are NASA’s theories
With the advent of this discovery, scientists recognize that the formation and destruction of planets It is “more complex and unpredictable” than was thought, so for now, we can only shuffle hypotheses that seek to explain the circumstances.
A red giant can explode and become a supernova, but in both stages they destroy everything around them.
As The stars are approaching the end of their lives, They begin to exhaust the hydrogen of which they are composed, and which they transform into helium, making a kind of nuclear combustion, But from NASA, the conjectures are not completely closed.
The stars “they become red giants and expand to their maximum size”although if it happened, “the star would have grown approximately three-quarters of the distance between the Earth and the Sun” and “it would have swallowed and destroyed any planet close in orbit in the process.
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However, “planet b” is located “about 0.5 astronomical units, or AU.” Faced with this data, astronomer Marc Hon maintains that “the planet is really the survivor of a merger between two starsor it is a new planet, formed from the debris left by that merger.”
This phenomenon, unthinkable for the scientific community, seems to be predicted by the British series Doctor Whosince in one of his adventures, the time lord also finds himself with an impossible planet.
These variables coincide with the story of the impossible planet in Doctor Who.
Why Doctor Who would have predicted the planet discovered by NASA
The impossible planet (The Impossible Planet) is the eighth episode of the second modern season of the British science fiction series Doctor Whooriginally aired June 3, 2006.
There, the Tenth Doctor (played by David Tennant) embarks on an adventure with Rose (Billie Piper) where they delve into deep spaceuntil falling on the mysterious planet Krop Tor, which is located in an impossible orbit around a black hole.
The Doctor and Rose, beneath the orbit of a black hole on the impossible planet, like the one NASA discovered.
Black holes form when a large star consumes all its nuclear fuel and explodes, which is known as a supernova. Then what’s left collapses and transforms into this super compact object, which also it destroys everything that exists near its orbit.
Although this belongs to the plane of fiction, The coincidences are obvious. Perhaps the explanation for why Krop Tor is not swallowed by the black hole be very similar to the reasons why this exoplanet is not devastated by the red giant.
