There are many planets in the universe. I believe everyone should know this. In the vast universe, the earth seems to be dust. Although the earth is ordinary, what is special about it is that there are life forms on the earth. Although scientists are constantly exploring alien life, they have not found it so far.
Therefore, the focus of scientists’ research now is to find planets that are similar to the earth in the universe, and they have found a lot, especially a planet called Kepler 78b. This planet is known to have the same size and density as the Earth. The earth is very similar, but scientists are surprised to find that this planet should not exist in the universe.
Regarding this statement of scientists, I believe many people will be more curious, why should this planet not exist in the universe? Is there anything special about this planet that is very similar to our earth? Or to put it further, in fact, the earth is also a special existence, shouldn’t it exist in the universe?
Of course, don’t get me wrong here, let’s first understand what kind of planet Kepler 78b is. This planet is about 400 light-years away from the earth, but the surface is full of super-high temperature lava, and the planet is very close to its parent star, it only takes about 8.5 hours to revolve around the parent star. It can be said that it is one of the planets with the shortest orbits in the universe discovered so far.
Of course, the main reason why scientists think this planet should not exist in the universe is that the planet is really too close to its parent star. According to scientists’ prediction, the distance may be less than 1.6 million kilometers, which is 1/40 of the distance between the sun and Mercury in our solar system.
Because it is very close to its parent star, its revolution speed is also very fast. As mentioned above, it only takes about 8.5 hours to revolve a week. We must know that it takes about 365 days for our earth to revolve once, because It is so close to its own star that its surface temperature is abnormally high.
According to scientists’ prediction, its surface temperature may even reach about 2000 ℃, the entire surface cannot be solid, it should be a giant lava ocean, which means that the whole may look red or even white and hot.
According to the current scientists’ theory about the formation of various planets in the universe, this planet should really not exist, because it is too close to its parent star, and such a planet cannot be formed at such a close distance. , nor can it cause the planet to have a fixed motion around its parent star.
Of course, if the planet is formed in the distance and slowly approaches the parent star, such a guess is not true. If it is really formed in the distance, and then slowly gets closer to its parent star, then it will not be like It is now observed that it has been orbiting the parent star in a fixed orbit.
According to common sense, it will continue to approach the parent star under the gravitational action of the parent star, and eventually fall into the interior of the parent star and be completely melted. This is a more correct common sense inference.
So how exactly did this planet form? And how it will develop in the future, scientists still can’t answer it, and it is still an unsolved mystery. Of course, with the progress of science and technology, scientists continue to make in-depth observations on it, which may really reveal the formation of this planet. mystery of.
But in any case, scientists said that this planet can be called the demon twin of the earth. It is very similar to the earth, but there are great differences. This planet is so strange and peculiar that it is destined to have no life. The body exists because it does not have any conditions for the living body to survive on it.
The surface must be filled with hot lava, and the scene presented is quite terrifying. Just imagine it and you will have lingering fears. And scientists believe that although the planet is now well orbiting around its parent star and looks relatively stable, the planet is destined to not be in this orbit all the time.
Because of its special location, it will definitely be dragged by the gravitational pull from the parent star. Maybe it will be dragged in in the future, and it will eventually fall apart and fall into the interior of the parent star. At that time, we will not be able to observe it. The planet exists.
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