For the first time witnessed a star destroying the planet
The US aerospace agency (NASA) was lucky enough to snatch a rare moment when a star about 63 light-years away gave off an intense fire to attack an alien planet.
The victim of the star is alien planet HD 189733b . Due to its extremely high structural and high temperature characteristics, the planet cannot be a habitat for humans or any creature.
Star image attacking alien planet HD 189733b
HD189733b is a planetarium, about 14% bigger than Jupiter and moves around a star 63 light years away.
Initially, NASA's Swift telescope detected a blazing X-ray flame emanating from a star in the distance. Later the Hubble Space Telescope observed that the atmosphere above the planet HD189733b near the star was blown up.
Planet HD189733b
The fire emanating from this star looks like a fire halo emanating from the Sun but at a much more intense level. According to the researchers, the planet HD 189733b has received a stream of X-ray energy that is three million times stronger than the energy that the Earth absorbs from a solar storm of level X.
During the observation process, the researchers found at least 1,000 tons of gas dispersed from planet HD 189733b's atmosphere within a second, with a speed of more than 482.803km / h.
The fire covers the planet HD189733b
Researcher Alain Lecavelier des Etangs at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics (IAP) said: "This is an unprecedented spectacle of the interaction of a star's flame with the atmosphere of a giant planet. ".
Previous research indicates that extraterrestrial HD 189733b bears a completely different structure from Earth. Astronomers call HD 189733b a hot Jupiter - a giant planet.
Inside the planet's thick atmosphere, temperatures can reach more than 1,000 degrees Celsius. Unlike Jupiter, HD 189733b works too close to this star so it is influenced by the tops. Fire of the star is quite rare.
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