Decay – Kepler-1658b is approaching its star and risks ending up in pieces.
For Kepler-1658b, it appears to be the last dance. L’exoplanet I got into an ill-fated waltz with her star, getting a little closer to it with each revolution, according to observations by an American team of astronomers. At this rate, an exoplanet could be torn apart by its star in just a few million years. This work was published Monday in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters .
It is not the first time we have witnessed such a scene. Wasp-12b was suspected in 2018 to be in somewhat the same situation, and several complementary studies have since confirmed it. For now, the situation is less clear for Kepler-1658b, but several experts have been interviewed before. Le Figaro I think this is the most likely scenario to explain the current observations.
“The really cool thing is that we’re entering a phase where we’re starting to get enough data…
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