A simple introduction about the strangest planet in the universe.
We’ve all heard of ice and water on planets, but many amateur astronomers don’t know that a planet is made almost entirely of hot ice and water. Which is not only liquid, but what is known as a superfluid.
What is the strangest planet in the universe?
It’s planet GG241
This is how the magic began from a planet called GG214: This planet began to draw attention from the beginning of its first discovery, as this exoplanet revolves around its parent star, the red dwarf, as it was discovered in 2009 in the constellation Ophiuchus, and the two became known superlands.
Super-Earth: a category under which asteroids that have a mass greater than the mass of the Earth, but smaller than the mass of gas giants, are built; Like the planet Neptune, the son of our solar system, this makes it possible to consider it suitable for embracing life.
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Features of Planet GG241
This planet being the planet with the smallest semi-major axes among all the super-lands, as well as the owner of the smallest semi-major axes among the planets outside our solar system along with thirty-four b.
Until April of 2011 ,
And it became the second planet in order to accurately measure its mass and radius.
To make sure that it is smaller than the gas giant planets in the solar field, this planet is a real discovery for scientists.
It is exceptionally suitable for study, as the distance separating it from its parent star ” red dwarf ” is quite small. The level of its orbit allows us to watch its meridian transit of the dwarf star’s disk every 38 hours, for a year on this planet.
It is relatively close to us as it is separated from Earth by a distance of thirteen parsecs, or forty light years.
As this makes it easier for the planet to reject us, and increases the chance of discovering life, there may be life on this space object.
Nowadays there are many plentiful asteroids discovered outside our solar system: it suffices to conclude that super-Earths are the most common type of planet in the Milky Way .
This conclusion does not indicate what the physical nature of the super-Earths is.
GG241 Planet Discovered
But the discovery of this planet enabled scientists to make real progress in this direction.
Where the diameter of this planet is twice the diameter of the Earth.
It has seven times its mass.
What is this cosmic body made of: Planet GG241
Data based on mass and radius showed unequivocally that it was not a gas giant but also revealed that it could not contain much rock, or mineral material.
Also, instead of that, scientists suggested that it is a watery planet with a small solid core, that it is a planet that includes an ocean whose depth has not been measured,
Its elements are unknown, and it has been assumed that the planet’s atmosphere is one of two types :
The first possibility: that the atmosphere is composed of water vapor, or some other heavy elements.
The second possibility is that the atmosphere is composed of clouds at high altitudes that cover the surface of the planet.
Theories about planet GG241
* At the same time, this invisible planet reveals one of its amazing secrets. Its theoretical temperature is known. The resulting numbers range between five hundred and thirty-six degrees Fenite if the planet is in complete darkness.
Two hundred and forty-eight degrees is a month if the reflectivity on the surface of the planet is similar to that of Venus.
Initial premise:
Suppose at the outset that the mass of this super-Earth consists of seventy-five percent of water.
Twenty-five percent of the material is rock and iron, and the atmosphere is composed of hydrogen and helium and its total mass is zero point zero five percent of the mass of the entire planet.
The second hypothesis:
But in 2012 , astrophysicists from Harvard’s Smithsonian Center issued a statement saying, “The atmosphere is water. More precisely, it is very dense water vapor, and hydrogen and helium are a tiny mixture in this mass.”
The new hypothesis was based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope .
They studied the changes in the radiation spectrum of the star as it crossed the planet’s atmosphere, and in the academic and scientific world the planet became known as the wettest super-Earth and it would be very easy to work as a meteorologist on this planet and you would never mistake the weather forecast.
Today is cloudy, tomorrow is cloudy, next week is cloudy, and so on.
As a result of the high temperature and pressure of the planet GG241:
But the amazing guesswork of these scientists was another matter. Since the planet has a surprisingly high temperature and pressure; The water on the planet is not in ordinary situations. But in strange, anomalies, these cases are called hot ice and superfluid water.
These states do not exist in nature on Earth’s surface; Because of the absence of such physical conditions necessary for its existence.
But some new unusual patterns have been obtained in the laboratory: our scientists have known more than 10 cases of water ice that differ in the structure of the crystal lattice of water molecules as obtained at different temperatures and pressures.
For example, hot ice at high pressures begins to melt only at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
Ultrafluid water is produced under ground conditions by adding a small amount of an organic silicon polymer at a specified temperature and pressure.
Such water is supposed to be frictionless and spontaneously pour out.
Even from the vertical vessels that the composition of the planet twelve fourteen may be composed of such components, even the most accurate and recent studies were conducted in 2014 on this space pyramid.
I came out with a paradox and instead of confirming the hypothesis of scientists, this water world generated new gases; Scientists have not been able to find these supposed elements of the atmosphere,
Not even a trace of it, no molecular compounds, no water, methane or even carbon dioxide was not detected there.
There are clouds, but it was not possible to determine what they consisted of.
Summary of theories revolving around this planet:
Looking at other superland models, these clouds can consist of potassium chloride or zinc sulfur at a temperature of four hundred and fifty degrees.
* One of the researchers of these American planets says that such clouds must have a completely different appearance from those on Earth.
* A new hypothesis was presented saying that this cosmic body is in its last stages, and that the aging planets over a few billion years since their existence; It has lost a large number of its volatile compounds, and has never returned to its original condition.
Most likely, it was born far from its parent star, with a cold, molten core, under severe conditions of eternal frost and cold.
Then this celestial body left its original orbit, to be affected by the red dwarf star, and the heating of the planet and its ice did not begin, in addition to the formation of superfluid water; Which enveloped the planet with its impenetrable clouds only at this point.
Well when will we be able to watch everything that could happen soon with the launch of the Janes Webb 21-foot Space Telescope:
He will explore through the clouds of super lands like twelve fourteen to see in the end whether to hide it,
As soon as this exciting information appears
