The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail. KELT-9 b is the galaxy’s hottest exoplanet, orbiting its dist
, orbiting its distant star about 670 light years from Earth. The celestial body, with an average temperature of a staggering 4,000 degrees, has since its discovery in 2016 excited the world’s astronomers. The new study in the journal“We have developed a new method that makes it possible to obtain more detailed information.
“Learning more about the heavier elements helps us, among other things, to determine the age of the exoplanets and how they were formed,” explains Nicholas Borsato. Exoplanets, or extrasolar planets, are planets that are in other solar systems than our own. The first confirmed discovery was made in 1992, of an exoplanet orbiting ahave been recorded. The existence of exoplanets often raises questions about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
Detecting heavy elements in the atmospheres of ultra-hot exoplanets is another step toward learning how the atmospheres of planets work. The better we get to know these planets, the greater chance we have of finding Earth 2.0 in the future,” concludes Nicholas Borsato. Reference: “The Mantis Network. III. Expanding the limits of chemical searches within ultra-hot Jupiters: New detections of Ca I, VI, Ti I, Cr I, Ni I, Sr II, Ba II, and Tb II in KELT-9 b” by N.W.B Borsato, H. J. Hoeijmakers, B. Prinoth, B. Thorsbro, R. Forsberg, D. Kitzmann, K. Jones and K. Heng, Accepted,
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