Billions of years ago Jupiter swallowed planet 10 times bigger than Earth
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looks like a gas giant in the lens of the NASA Juno
Our world — the place is so amazing that it is unclear why invent , unicorns and other monsters. Once you look closely at the diversity of species on our planet to understand how inventive . Agree, that there is only one giraffe's neck. But if you look at the sky and be well-equipped with modern tools, you can see that we are in an infinite Universe, surrounded by other celestial bodies. a Careful observer, for example, astronomers from the University of Zurich, I note that billions of years ago Jupiter swallowed planet 10 times bigger than Earth. But how is this possible?
How and why there is a clash of the planets?
So was born 13.8 billion years ago as a result . By the gravitational interaction of the formed dust and gas clouds, which formed stars, and around them the planet. In the future, of stars grouped in a system of the galaxy. And today only in the observable Universe there are about two trillion. This means that the variety of celestial objects is so great that collisions between them are inevitable. Even black holes collide with each other to producing gravitational waves. By the way, often discuss the nature of black holes, join us!
According to experts, the formation of our took about 700 million years. The scale of the Universe, it is, of course, nonsense. However, even during this time within our space of the house a lot has happened. About 4 billion 600 million years ago when the Solar system had just been born, it had a lot more planets than today. Most likely, between Neptune and there was another gas giant. Scientists think so thanks . According to the program, this planet was ejected from our system due to the gravitational influence of their big neighbours.
planets of the Solar system
Also, scientists do not exclude that next to the Sun is another planet, in size similar to Mars. This is probably a celestial body collided with Earth and debris, which was thrown into near-earth space, the Moon formed. Thus, the planetary collision in the early stages of the formation of stellar systems — a common phenomenon. The collision of such planets as ours, that is a rocky, two celestial bodies merge into one, and from fragments formed satellites.
How the Jupiter "ate" the planet
According to the study, published in the journal Nature, Jupiter could destroy a huge planet in the first years of its existence. We are talking about a potential frontal collision of a gas giant with a newborn planet, which at that time was in the process of its formation. The size of this planet is 10 times superior to the size of the Earth. According to researchers from the University of Zurich, such a collision could explain the nature of Jupiter's core.
NASA's Juno in the background of Jupiter
For the First time aware of the fact that the gas giant "fuzzy" core, became due , which in 2016 is approaching the planet-giant. In addition to the stunning photos, the probe has collected a huge amount of information about the core of Jupiter.
Previously it was thought that Jupiter's core is composed primarily of rock and ice. And thanks to Juno, the research team was able to determine that at the core of a gas giant, there are more than light elements such as helium and hydrogen. But the real and perceptible barrier between Jupiter's core and surrounding layers no.
The study's Lead author Shang-FEI Liu came to the conclusion that to explain such oddities of Jupiter's core can some tremendous event which shook the core. In the study, researchers have created thousands of computer simulations and found that the growing gas giant could disrupt the orbits of the protoplanets, which were nearby at the time. The research team found that there is a 40% probability that Jupiter has absorbed one of the nearby planets.
If it was so, such a collision would have destroyed the core of a gas giant, causing heavy elements in the core would be mixed with lighter components surrounding the core of the layers.
It Seems that the results of this study indicate that if not for Jupiter, our would have looked very different. What do you think, what would be a neighboring planet?
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