King@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoNASA’s Webb telescope finds bizarre atmosphere on a lemon-shaped exoplanetnews.uchicago.eduexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down14
arrow-up149arrow-down1external-linkNASA’s Webb telescope finds bizarre atmosphere on a lemon-shaped exoplanetnews.uchicago.eduKing@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoIt always bogles my brain that they can tell all these things based on light shifts and what not. So this lemon shape, is the heavy star nearby pulling it apart or something to elongate it like that?
minus-squareNurse_Robot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoThat’s my understanding based on the article, it orbits a star the weight of ours but the size of a basketball or something insane like that
minus-squaret_berium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoNeutron stars have a diameter of approximately 20 km. Still tiny in cosmic terms.
It always bogles my brain that they can tell all these things based on light shifts and what not. So this lemon shape, is the heavy star nearby pulling it apart or something to elongate it like that?
That’s my understanding based on the article, it orbits a star the weight of ours but the size of a basketball or something insane like that
Neutron stars have a diameter of approximately 20 km. Still tiny in cosmic terms.