Now a British astronomer the UAG for 17 years, but the planet WASP-142b was open to them during practice at the University of Kiel two years ago. Exoplanet is orbiting the stars that lie in a thousand light-years from Earth in our galaxy, therefore, confirm the discovery was not so easy, and it took two years.

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Now a British astronomer the UAG for 17 years, but the planet WASP-142b was open to them during practice at the University of Kiel two years ago. Exoplanet is orbiting the stars that lie in a thousand light-years from Earth in our galaxy, therefore, confirm the discovery was not so easy, and it took two years.

the size of the WASP-142b, which is located in the southern constellation Hydra, comparable to the size of Jupiter. The search for new planets with 15 years of UAG was conducted by Keele University in the framework of the project WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets). This project involves the search for exoplanets transit method, in which astronomers watching the planet pass against their stars. Tom noticed that the glow of the stars in orbit which eventually proved to be a new planet, periodically loses intensity. The teenager came to the conclusion that unpredictable fading stars is due to the fact that the orbiting exoplanet. To confirm this fact took two years, but now she's added to the directory as WASP-142b.

planet belongs to the class representatives "hot Jupiter" that orbits that close to the parent stars. According to scientists, these space objects were formed in the outer part of the system, but due to interactions with other planets "caught up" to its center.

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