"Hot planets" turned out to be stars

    The recent discovery of the telescope Kepler mysterious phenomenon when enough big mass objects were hot parent star, concealed mystery less than a week.

    Astronomers from China, Canada, the United States and Great Britain under the leadership of Martin van Kerkwijk showed that KOI-74b, most likely, is still a white dwarf. According to scientists, his temperature is even higher than Row and his colleagues estimated - about 13 thousand Kelvin. However, the mass of this object is not 0.03, but 0.2 of the mass of the Sun. And there is a natural evolutionary scenario that leads to the appearance of such a hot white dwarf next to a class A star. The case with KOI-81b is explained in much the same way.

    Original article

    ps It is a pity that this is just a mistake, not a new secret.

    Also popular now: