Saturday, January 1, 2011
Found outside the solar system unusual "hot ice" planet.
<P Align=center> </ P> World Scientific reports [tech.] News: According to foreign media reports, the European astronomers announced on Wednesday they discovered a strange planet, the planet is covered with solid water hot. .The discovery of the planet may exist for other planets oceans provide evidence. .<P> Geneva Observatory team of astronomers named the planet GJ 436b, it quickly from Earth around a red star 30 light years of cold running. .The reason why the planet GJ 436b is hot because of its orbital distance of the star very close, but also because it's the quality of cause it is under enormous pressure. .</ P> <P> astronomer Frederic Pont said: "The water becomes solid at high temperatures because of the enormous pressure caused by it. We often think that water temperature can change the state, and in fact even under water pressure .can become solid. "</ P> <P> researchers say the planet can be shrouded in hydrogen, this condition is difficult to life. .However, if there is water above the planet to the other planets that may exist above the water, or the presence of life. .Pont said: "This shows that there may be many outside the solar system planets have water." </ P> <P> planet is the first time in 2004 by U.S. astronomers discovered. .</ P> <P> some astronomers found the star of revolution around 200 extrasolar planets. .Many of them as huge as Jupiter, the gas planet. .The newly discovered planet is smaller, but it did not like the earth has a rocky core. .</ P> <P> by the volume and quality of the planet, astronomy calculated the density of the planet GJ 436b to know it by the water composition. .It is a small planet of revolution of stars, only about one hundredth the size of the sun, the quality is only half of the sun. .This is why the GJ 436b on the water at high temperatures remain solid. .</ P> <P align=left> </ P> </ p>.
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