They find the solar system with four planets

A group of astronomers from the University of Cambride discovered that a two million year old star had four giant planets around its orbit. The discovery raised questions about the formation and evolution of the solar system.

This is the first time that many gigantic planets have been detected in orbit around a young star. The research was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

A young solar system surrounded by dust and ice
The star, known as CI Tau, is two million years old, which means that it is still at the beginning life cycle, indicates very interesting.

Like other young stars, it is surrounded by a vast ring of dust and ice, called a protoplanetary disk, in which planets, moons, asteroids, and other astronomical objects are formed.

500 light-years from Earth Astronomers show a particular interest for the CI Tau, because it contains a gas planet with a mbad 10 times higher than that of Jupiter, they call it "Hot Jupiter".

These discoveries also confuse astronomers because

To make this discovery, the researchers used the observatory ALMA (millimeter / submillimetric matrix of Atacama), a network of radio telescopes in the Chilean Andes, to the search for Other planets.

ALMA images revealed three distinct gaps in the protoplanetary disk of debris surrounding the star, which, according to the researchers, would probably have been caused by the gravitational effects of the planets when they gravitate around the young star. 19659002] The orbits of the four planets of Tau differ greatly: the nearest (CI Tau b) is in the equivalent of the orbit of Mercury, while the farthest orbits are more than three times longer than of Neptune.

The two outer planets have more or less the mbad of Saturn, while the two inner planets have 10 times the mbad of Jupiter.

For her part, Professor Cathie Clarke of the Cambridge University Institute of Astronomy and her co-authors commented:

"CURRENTLY CAN NOT SAY IF EXTREME PLANETARY ARCHITECTURE IS FOUND IN CI TAU IS COMMON IN HOT JUPITER SYSTEMS BECAUSE THE FORM IN WHICH THESE PLANET BROTHERS HAVE BEEN DETECTED, IN ITS EFFECT ON THE PROTOPLANETARY DISK, WILL NOT WORK IN OLDER SYSTEMS WHICH DO NOT ALREADY HAVE A PROTOPLANETARY DISK ".