A Rocky Planet in This Oddball Solar System Would Have Stunning Skies

A Rocky Planet in This Oddball Solar System Would Have Stunning Skies
(Credit: Teo Mocnik) Over the past couple of decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of alien planets and solar systems. These worlds come in a wide variety of arrangements, many of which are quite different from what we see in our own solar system. Some have giant planets that swing through the planetary systems in stretched-out, or “eccentric,” elliptical orbits, unlike the nearly circular orbits of planets like Jupiter and Saturn.  Astronomers think that many of these eccent

Source All DiscoverMagazine.com content
Read more A Rocky Planet in This Oddball Solar System Would Have Stunning Skies
November 08, 2019 at 02:09AM

Yorumlar

Popüler Yayınlar