Connect with us

Science & Tech

Scientists find oldest-known planetary disk

Published

8 years ago

on

Scientists find oldest-known planetary diskWashington : Astronomers believe they have found the oldest known planet-forming disk — a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and dust that orbits around a young star.

Circumstellar disks around red dwarfs like this one are rare to begin with, but this star, called AWI0005x3s, appears to have sustained its disk for an exceptionally long time, according to the study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

“Most disks of this kind fade away in less than 30 million years,” said lead researcher Steven Silverberg from University of Oklahoma in the US.

“This particular red dwarf is a candidate member of the Carina stellar association, which would make it around 45 million years old (like the rest of the stars in that group). It’s the oldest red dwarf system with a disk we’ve seen in one of these associations,” Silverberg noted.

The discovery relied on citizen scientists from Disk Detective, a project led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Marc Kuchner that is designed to find new circumstellar disks.

“Without the help of the citizen scientists examining these objects and finding the good ones, we might never have spotted this object,” Kuchner said.

“It is surprising to see a circumstellar disk around a star that may be 45 million years old, because we normally expect these disks to dissipate within a few million years,” one of the researchers Jonathan Gagne from Carnegie Institution for Science said.

“More observations will be needed to determine whether the star is really as old as we suspect, and if it turns out to be, it will certainly become a benchmark system to understand the lifetime of disks,” Gagne noted.

This star and its disk are also interesting because of the possibility that it could host extrasolar planets, the study said.

Related Topics:
Continue Reading

Business

Apple is giving a huge discount on its gadgets: Details inside

Published

3 years ago

on

May 5, 2022

By

If you want to buy an iPhone and were waiting for a nice offer, then we have a piece of good news for you! Amazon Summer Sale May 2022 has begun and they are offering major discounts on various smartphones, laptops, and smart TVs, among others.

The sale is live now on the e-commerce platform with no-cost EMI options and exchange discounts on various products. In addition to this, Amazon has also partnered with several banks including ICICI, Kotak Bank, and RBL so that customers get instant discounts of up to 10% using their cards and EMI transactions.

Customers can easily enjoy this summer sale and get massive discounts on iPhones. They can also compare prices on Flipkart Big Saving Days Sale 2022 before making a purchase.

 

Amazon Summer Sale May 2022: Discount offer on iPhone 13 

Apple’s coveted phone model iPhone 13 in the 128 GB storage model will be available during the Amazon Summer Sale May 2022 for Rs 64,900. The MRP of the phone is Rs 79,900. This means that the customers will be able to enjoy a discount of up to Rs 15,000 on the purchase of the iPhone 13.

If you have an old iPhone in working condition then you will also be eligible to receive another additional discount worth up to Rs 17,000 on the iPhone 13.

Buy at Rs. 64,900 (MRP – Rs. 79,900)

Features of Apple iPhone 13 

The iPhone is powered by an A15 Bionic processor with 6 core CPU. Apart from this, it has 16 core neural engines. With the iPhone 13, up to 512 GB of storage will be available. The iPhone 13 has a 6.1-inch Retina XDR display with 1000 nits brightness.

The iPhone 13 has a 12-megapixel dual rear camera setup. This time a new wide-angle camera has been given, whose aperture is f/1.6. With this, there is support for sensor optical stabilisation. Night mode has been made better than before. The second lens is also 12 megapixels ultra-wide and has an aperture of f/2.4.

Continue Reading

Trending