New Planet NASA's-hunting telescope has found two puzzling things that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.
The Kepler Telescope, launched in March discovered two new himneska body, which circa ling his own star. Telescope chief scientist Bill Borucki at NASA says the shares are thousands of degrees hotter than the stars they circle. That means they are probably not planet. They are bigger and hotter than planets in our solar system, including Dwarf planets.
"The Universe, but the strange things stranger than we can think of in our imagination," said Jon Morse, head of Astro-physics for NASA.
The new findings do not quite fit into any definition known Astronomical objects, and so far have not indexing their own. Information on the mystery objects were presented Monday at a meeting of American Astronomical Society in Washington.
For now, NASA research Jason Rowe, who found the items, he said, calling them "hot companions."
How hot? Try 26,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It is hot enough to melt lead and iron.
There are two main theories about how things could be and the theories cover both ends of Cosmic life cycle:
Rowe suggests that they are newly born planet. New planets have very high temperatures, and in this case, Rowe speculates they could be only about 200 million years old.
Ronald Gilli Land of the Space Telescope Science Institute said that they could be white dwarf stars that are dying and stripping of the outer shell and shrink.
The main focus of three of Kepler telescope is year project is to find out how common other planets - especially Earth-like planets - in the universe are. To do so, it is scanning a small chunk of heaven, one four-hundredth the night sky with more than 150,000 stars to search for planets.
The telescope in only six weeks, found the first five confirmed planets, slightly more than astronomers expected of the quick search. There are hundreds of other applicants who require confirmation.
Five planets are much larger than Earth, much closer to their stars than Earth is to the sun, and far too hot for life, Borucki said. A couple of these planets are close to 3000 degrees.
"If we look at them is like looking at Blast Furnace," Borucki said. "Of course, no place to look for life."
One newly discovered planet is so Airy that "it has density Styrofoam," Borucki said.
"It is going to be all kinds of weird stuff out there," said Alan Boss of Carnegie Institution in Washington, who was not part of the research. "This is óviðjafnanlega data set. Universe really is amazing place. It is fantastic."
