They get the first picture of a "newborn" planet | ELESPECTADOR.COM

Through the SPHERE instrument of the Southern European Observatory, an international team of astronomers photographed a giant gaseous planet with a mbad greater than that of Jupiter and 's. a temperature of about 1000 º C.

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany), managed to photograph for the first time a "newborn" planet . The celestial body – the bright spot near the black center of the image – is about three billion kilometers from the PDS 70 star, a distance equivalent to that between Uranus and the Sun. (Read The World's Most Powerful Microscope To obtain the picture of this planetary formation process around the PDS 70, astronomers used the SPHERE instrument installed in the VLT telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)., one of the most powerful ones that exist. (Read C & rsquo; is as well as the testicles arrived on their site according to science

SPHERE, which studies the Exoplanets and disks around nearby stars through the use of high-contrast images, allowed researchers to measure the luminosity of the new celestial body. The badysis shows that PDS 70b is a giant gas planet of mbad higher than that of Jupiter at a temperature near 1000 ° C, much higher than that of any planet in the solar system.

The black dot in the center of the image is the work of a coron ograph, a mask that blocks the intense light of the central star and allows astronomers to detect his disk and the new planet, whose brightness is much lower. Without this mask, its dim light would be difficult to detect.

Where were the planets born? [19659005] "These discs that surround the young stars are the birthplace of the planets, but so far very few sightings have detected any signs of these newborns," says Miriam Keppler, researcher at Department of Formation of Planets and Stars. Mac Planck Institute of Astronomy and Team Leader.

The discovery of the young partner of the PDS 70 led to a second group of researchers – understood by many of the components of the first – to follow in the last few months the initial observations and then, study the young planet in more detail. Thanks to new data, including a spectrum of the planet, it has been discovered that its atmosphere is cloudy.

"The results bring us closer to the first stages, complex and still little known, of the planetary evolution," says André Müller, head of the second research team. By determining the atmospheric and physical properties of the new celestial body, astronomers will be able to test theoretical models of planetary formation.

Thomas Henning, director of the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy and leader of both teams, summarizes the scientific adventure: "After During a decade of tremendous effort to build this instrument, SPHERE finally allowed us to gather information about baby planets. "