There was a link on the internet I found about a planet. The
planet has two suns apparently just like something from star wars. I’m not
really sure what the star wars version is but that’s how the article compared
it. This planet is the first known of its kind and is a bit larger than Neptune
in size. They call it PH1. PH1 was discovered by a couple of amateur
astronomers.
The alien planet spends about 138 days orbiting once around
its suns. The suns or stars themselves orbit around each other once every 20
days. PH1 is really hot and reaches temperatures over 600 degrees. It also has
two other stars near it that aren’t even its main suns. Astronomers have been
studying this planet and gaining so much information just “by studying light
from one of its parent stars.”
I have always been interested in astronomy and think it’s
really cool that amateur astronomers were the ones to discover this. I wish I
could spend more time looking at stars and planets especially with a telescope
that is really powerful. The planet and its suns are really cool too. I want to
learn more about why this is the only one known of its kind. Why doesn’t this
happen more often that we can tell? It is hard to believe that we can even see
stuff like this thousands of light years away. That’s so hard for me to
comprehend how far away that is. I really wish we knew more about what is out
there. I bet there are tons of planets like PH1 that we don’t know about and
many others that are even more surprising than having 4 stars near it. I am
really glad that we have the technology we do to know about what is out there
even as far as the moon. I don’t even know what I would think if we didn’t
scientifically know all this stuff.
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