Strange Exoplanet Discovery #shorts #space #astro

Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-like planet with one of the strangest orbit’s ever observed. This exoplanet not only follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known transiting exoplanets but is also orbiting its star backwards. This animation shows the orbit in comparison to the orbits of Mercury and Earth. It is named TIC 241249530 b and was spotted using the Wynn telescope at NSF’s Kitt Peak National Observatory – a program of NSF Noir Lab. This extreme orbit would cause temperatures on the planet to vary between that of a summer’s day to hot enough to melt titanium.
Images and Videos: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/KPNO/R. Proctor/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani/ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser/N. Bartmann

[nikolaishriver]

Looks like a rogue planet was captured by the star.

[sailorbychoice]

It's probably an adopted stray planet from another system that has gotten captured by that star's gravity, rather than a planet that formed in that system, or it could have been hit by a massive object. My first guess would be the former.

[CharlesAAnnen-rhmk]

So a planet can exhibit an orbit similar to that as the one described as Nibiru. home of the Anunaki. 😊

[timlesiuk]

If putting up such a post, surely it is pure fiction, if you fail to give its location/name and more.

[yoyohooyo]

Is this planet X that was talked about years ago which is thought to cause the earth's axes to rotate to a new position? Causing the polar ice caps to melt?

[askjeevescosby]

But if we are looking at light reflecting off of it does that mean the planet may not even exsist anymore?

[johnglsmith]

What's the name of the store it is orbiting?

[DaveDiggler-ko]

Orbit looks like it comes mighty close to earth 🌎✴️

[sympicon]

Jupiter like planet in orbit between Earth-Sun orbit? Really? We don't need any telescope to see it, not even eyes. Just pure IMAGINATION 🤗😜

[NesconProductions]

Reminds me of the temperature extremes of the shower in my apartment :-P.

[grigorovnikola]

....😮Why do you avoid suggesting the actual path relative to the center of the galaxy?!

[joeycasale]

Thrown out of orbit by the Destroyer Comet.

[rvng]

So where in nature is it written that planets are suppose to orbit in a particular direction?

[lorisinan]

How theory of gravity fits in this? Something does not make sense. Any one?

[Georgie-rv]

the Star is Moving FAST, the Distance of the Orbit makes for Extremes of Temp'tr, like our Seasons, is it going Backwards? Or Are WE?!! Ask Your SELF!! Is it, 'i' just Don't GET It? 😅 or "Me" don't WANT To-!(?) 🤔
SIN-sear-ly-lie... geo+
-Earth 'Grave'-ity!!!

[Aydinishee]

Earths orbit isnt circular its elliptical

[patrickgragg]

outer space does not exist, there is only heaven and earth