The <\/span>Hubble Space Telescope<\/span><\/a> h<\/span>as photographed a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through a process that researchers have described as intense and violent.<\/span><\/p>\n The newly forming planet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope is called AB Aurigae b.<\/span><\/p>\n It is embedded in a protoplanetary disk with distinct spiral structures swirling around and surrounding a young star that is estimated to be about 2 million years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This protoplanet is about the same age our solar system was when planet formation was underway. It is also 531 light-years away from our sun.<\/span><\/p>\n Further, this protoplanet is probably around nine times the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star at a distance of 8.6 billion miles, over two times the distance between Sun and Pluto.<\/span><\/p>\n Protoplanets are small celestial objects that are the size of a moon or a bit bigger. They are small planets, like an even smaller version of a dwarf planet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Astronomers believe that these objects form during the creation of a solar system.<\/span><\/p>\n According to NASA, this discovery supports a long-debated theory called \u201cdisk instability,\u201d which tries to explain how planets similar to Jupiter are formed.<\/span><\/p>\n According to this theory, matter slowly moves inwards in this disc as dust particles grow into centimetre-sized pebbles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is seen as the first step towards the formation of kilometre-sized planetesimals that eventually come together to form planets.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cHubble finds a new Jupiter-like planet forming in an unusual way: NASA\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on<\/span> 7th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through a process that researchers have described as intense and violent. What is the Jupiter-like protoplanet formed? The newly forming planet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope is called AB Aurigae b. It is embedded in a protoplanetary disk with distinct… Continue reading Hubble finds a new Jupiter-like planet forming in an unusual way: NASA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-178454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704859520},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Jupiter-like protoplanet formed?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are Protoplanets?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the significance of this discovery?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is Disk Instability Theory?<\/b><\/h5>\n