Astronomers revealed the mystery of the origin of mysterious double planets

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The universe is filled with planets, which move in space in free flight, because they do not rotate around the stars. They are single objects, and are double. Both are very difficult to detect. This is especially true of planets called dual objects with Jupiter mass (Jumbo). Also the mystery to astronomers remains how all these planets occur in space.

Although the first planets were discovered more than 20 years ago, only a few hundred such strange objects have been found since then. But with the help of a space telescope, webb astronomers have discovered more than 500 floating planets in Orion's nebula. Of these, 80 are double planets that rotate around each other and their mass is 0. 7 - 13 times more than Jupiter. It's just jumbo.

Modern hypotheses suggest that double and single exile planets are formed in the same way as stars, when clouds of gas and dust are compressed under gravity. Some scholars also believe that the exile planets throw away from the planetary systems, where they were connected to the star, the gravity of a large object passing by, for example, another star.

Last year, astronomers suggested that the probability that Jumbo would be thrown from their native planetary systems is 5 times higher than that of single planets. Now scientists have created a new modeling to find out more accurately what process is the appearance of Jumbo. Different models contained two planets with the mass of Jupiter, which are in a planetary system around a star -like star. Each model took into account different factors.

The authors of the study found that Jumbo is more likely to be formed if they were about each other from the outset or if their mass was 4 times larger than Jupiter's mass. But the models have shown that even in this case, the probability of simultaneous ejection from the planet system of the two planets is very low - less than 1%. At the same time, as scientists have found out, single exile planets are much more likely to throw from their native systems.

That is, the passage of another star can create lonely floating planets. But Jumbo was most likely formed as a result of compression of gas clouds. The authors of the study believe that it will be possible to find a confirmation of this theory with the help of a new Observatory of Faith Rubin, which will start its work in early 2025.

As the focus has already wrote, this terrestrial observatory will be equipped with the largest digital camera that has recently been introduced by engineers in the United States. This camera has the highest resolution, and therefore new space images will be even more detailed. Focus also wrote that in the atmosphere of the planet WASP-76b, which is located at a distance of 640 light years from us, astronomers first discovered an earthly phenomenon.