New Discoveries In Solar System 2016

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New discoveries in solar system 2016.

Nicknamed planet nine the real life planet x appears to have the mass of 10 earths and is 20 times farther from the. Published on jan 21 2016 the solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Proxima centauri b also called proxima b or alpha centauri cb is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star proxima centauri which is the closest star to the sun and part of a triple star system. If you cast your eyes toward the constellation cygnus you ll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double star system.

For the first time in over 150 years there is solid evidence that the solar system s planetary census is incomplete the road to the theoretical discovery was not straightforward. Two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of neptune but as yet unseen orbits the sun every. Nasa johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory southwest research institute. New discoveries from the solar system september 11 2016 centerbrained i have come to understand that the uniting feature of almost all my interests is different worlds as i have discussed in previous posts about my majors.

Located about 340 light years from earth the newly discovered planet is unlike any other known world. Astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that has three suns. It s too faint to see with the naked eye but a team led by astronomers from goddard and san diego state university used nasa s kepler space telescope to identify the new planet.