Medicine & TechnologyA new exoplanet that is as dense as styrofoam is hinted to be the clue to alien life. The Styrofoam planet called as KELT-11b will be used to study the atmospheres of other planets.
If a star is a planet, it sounds a little strange because the star is a massive gaseous stellar object. However, a team of astronomers from Carnegie Institution for Science claimed that a Brown Dwarf is, in fact, a planetary-mass object.
Scientists tracked the historical changes in the carbon dioxide levels with the help Antarctic ice cores air pocket and deep sea floor sludge. Scientists compiled 1500 carbon dioxide estimates for creating a view extending 420 million years.
A team of astrophysicists from United States, Netherlands, and Italy found a young planet which is 300 light-years away. The planet is only 13 million years old and 11 times larger than Jupiter.
International Astronomical Union(IAU) declared Pluto as a “Dwarf” in the year 2006. , Alan Stern, Principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto proposed IAU to redefine Pluto as a Planet in the Solar system. Alan prepared a new definition of Planet that declares pluto as a planet alone with other 110 Planetary objects.
NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft is already on target for an historic rendezvous with Pluto in July, but while it travels it continues to snap new images of the little dwarf planet. The new images reveal even more detail about its complex and high contrast surface.