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Perhaps it is on one of the numerous aktolun the first time we will be able to find alien life
The Discovery of new exoplanets today is no longer big news. Since the discovery of the first planet outside the Solar system it's been almost 25 years, during which were found more than 4000 planets orbiting alien stars. However, scientists believe that in our galaxy planets even more than the stars, but when you consider that most of these planets have satellites, the probability for at least one of these celestial bodies seems incredibly high.
Can there be life on exoplanets satellite?
If an alien observer with a telescope could see our Solar system, he probably would have thought that our star system only has a few gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, because of the size which they are easiest to detect from a distance. If you consider that a crushing pressure in the atmosphere of gas giants makes them madagascariense of the hypothetical observer is unlikely to consider potentially habitable place. However, an alien observer may well be tempted to look for life on the moons of the planets discovered by him, which, as many of us know, in the Solar system can count a huge amount. If so, why don't we start the search for life on the moons of exoplanets?
When in 2017 was discovered first aktolun Kepler-1625b orbiting the gas giant, the discovery created a furor in the scientific world, forcing to reconsider previous beliefs of astronomers about the discovery of exoplanets and their moons.
Earth analogs around sun-like stars, it is very difficult to detect even with large telescopes. The task becomes a little easier if the parent star is less massive, but in this case, the planet must be closer to the star to be warm enough and have the ability to retain water in a liquid state. Located close to the star, the planet has all chances to become captured by the gravitational object, due to the powerful attraction of its star, risking to turn into lifeless stone with forever turned to the Sun toasted side. However, gas giants orbiting sun-like stars may have rocky moons that can be the most likely places to search for life.
When in 2018, two astronomers from Columbia University reported the first preliminary observation of azospermia orbiting a planet located outside the Solar system, scientists were amazed by the size, open them for the moon. So, aktolun orbiting the planet Kepler-1625b is much more massive than any open moons found in the Solar system. The detected object has a mass similar to Neptune and orbits a planet similar in size to Jupiter.
As is known, satellites of such planets, as Jupiter and Saturn, have a mass only a few percent of the mass of the Earth. However, new aktolun's almost a thousand times greater than the corresponding bodies in our Solar system, even large moons such as Ganymede and that rotate around Jupiter and Saturn. Very difficult to explain the formation of such a large satellite, using modern models for the formation of the moon, but scientists believe that the discovered aktolun is captured by a larger planet object.
Around Kepler-1625b turns a satellite the size of Neptune.
Considered in this context captured the planet is unlikely to be suitable for life. The fact that large and heavy planets do not have any surface except solid icy core, like Uranus and Neptune. Due to the fact that the study of cores of giant planets is very difficult because of the enormous pressure of huge masses of hydrogen and helium, the study of the properties of the detected aktywny can help researchers to understand what looked like Jupiter billions of years ago, before he was able to acquire its modern dimensions.
Despite the fact that the system Kepler-1625 is located at a distance of 4000 light years from the Sun, detection of orbiting this distant star of the planet and its gigantic azospermia is a real victory for modern technology. Eventually, when the capabilities of the telescopes will be significantly expanded, there is a high probability that the detected system could be found even more actlon. And while this historic event has not happened yet, let's wait for him together in our Telegram chat or on the channel in Yandex.Zen.
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