The process of forming giant planets in the universe

The January 2 issue of Nature published the findings of Chilean astronomers, who discovered the origin of the giant planets in the universe, similar to Jupiter and Saturn. .

The team used the most modern telescope in the world today called Atacama (also known as ALMA), located at the South Europe observatory in Chile's Atacama desert to observe a young star named is HD 142527 , located more than 450 light years from Earth.

They found that this uninhabited giant planet was formed by the process of sucking in air and dust around new stars in the gloomy circular plane of the universe.

The formation of a planet

Around the star HD 142527, astronomers discovered an interesting flaw on a dusty surface and they believed that this hole was created by a newly formed star.

By observing light from ultra-small wavelengths, ALMA can illuminate parts of infrared light and can see the spectrum of HD 142527.

This method helped the team discover two large-proportioned airflows that flow through the hole, and the remaining gas is in the gap.

In addition to sucking debris and dust into their bodies as they orbit the stars, they also absorb the flow of air through the cavity from the outer surface of the plane to the interior, helping to feed Nourish the new star.

The holes are usually very large, about 10 astronomical units from the star, meaning 10 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

Astronomer Simon Casassus of the University of Chile said: "Astronomers have always predicted that there must be such a flow of air, but this is the first time we have witnessed it directly."

An earlier study by Australian scientists, published in the journal Nature, also showed that air and dust flows from the center of the Galaxy are the product of forming new stars.