Moon-forming Region observed around Exoplanet PDS 70c
Recently, a team of scientists spotted, for the first time, a moon-forming region around an exoplanet - a planet beyond our solar system. It is a Jupiter-like world surrounded by a disc of gas and dust massive enough to spawn three moons the size of the one orbiting the Earth. The findings are contained in a paper published on 22nd July, 2021.
PDS 70b and PDS 70c
- Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile's Atacama desert the researchers detected the disc of swirling material accumulating around one of the two newborn planets that were seen orbiting a ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 Novel Technique to Enhance Next-Gen Lighting
- 2 Majorana 1 Quantum Chip
- 3 Successful Wet Tests of Matsya-6000
- 4 Project Waterworth
- 5 Revolutionary Drug Delivery System for Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 6 DRDO Successfully Tests VSHORADS
- 7 Successful Test of Naval Anti-Ship Missile (NASM-SR)
- 8 Thermal & Magnetic Structure of Solar Coronal Holes
- 9 3D Structure of an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere Revealed
- 10 ESA’s Euclid Telescope Discovers Rare Einstein Ring
- 1 New Insights into Star Formation Process in the Milky Way
- 2 InSight Mission reveals Mars’ Deep Interior
- 3 ‘NEA Scout’: NASA’s Solar Sail Asteroid Mission
- 4 BBX32: A Protein that helps in Plant Growth Regulation
- 5 Successful Flight Tests of Akash-NG and MPATGM
- 6 New AI-based Tool to detect Cancer Causing Mutations
