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Art work: The planetary core orbits extremely near to its moms and dad star.
Astronomers have actually discovered a previously unseen type of things circling around a remote star.
It might be the core of a gas world like Jupiter, using an unmatched look inside among these huge planets.
Giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn have a solid planetary core underneath a thick envelope of hydrogen and helium gas.
However no-one has formerly had the ability to see what these strong cores resemble.
Now, a group of astronomers has found what they believe are the rocky innards of a huge world that’s missing its thick atmosphere. Their findings have been published in the journal Nature.
Lead author David Armstrong, from Warwick University, and associates had actually been running a programme to discover exposed planetary cores in data from the Tess space telescope.
” This was among the candidates we picked out as something to try to observe,” he told BBC News.
” We followed it up with an instrument called the Harps spectrograph in Chile, which we used to determine the masses of these prospects. This one came out as being extremely huge –