This ‘Wet Lava Ball’ in Space Somehow Clings to an Atmosphere
This highlights that scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, challenging previous notions that small planets that orbit closely to their stars are unable to sustain a thick blanket of gases According to reports, toi-561 b orbits a 10-billion-year-old star located about 280 light-years from earth and has a vast magma ocean This highlights that using nasa’s webb space telescope, a team of researchers probed the ultra-hot super-earth exoplanet and found evidence suggesting it’s surrounded by a thick atmosphere Experts suggest that the new findings explain the planet’s unusually low density and help scientists better understand rocky worlds beyond the reaches of our own solar system Experts suggest that super-earth the peculiar world was first discovered in 2020 and is the innermost of at least three planets orbiting an ancient g-type star This highlights that although its star is slightly smaller and cooler than our sun, toi-561 b orbits so closely to the host star (less than one million miles) that it is likely tidally locked Experts suggest that as it completes an orbit in 11 hours, one side of the planet is permanently facing its star In recent developments, “what really sets this planet apart is its anomalously low density,†johanna teske, staff scientist at carnegie science earth and planets laboratory and lead author of a paper published in the astrophysical journal letters, said in a statement
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