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Planet Found Around Wrong Kind Of Star

發(fā)現(xiàn)有行星繞著不同以往類型的恒星轉(zhuǎn)

Astronomers have already discovered hundreds of exoplanets. But make way for the new kid. Which is orbiting a kind of star that models say it shouldn’t.

天文學(xué)家已發(fā)現(xiàn)了數(shù)以百計的太陽系外行星。但是,現(xiàn)在該給新成員騰讓地方了,這顆行星圍繞著某顆恒星旋轉(zhuǎn),用事實證明了傳統(tǒng)理論可不完全正確。

Researchers found the exoplanet while looking at the star HIP 13044 — or Sergio, for Star of Extra-Galactic Origin. It’s in what once was a separate galaxy, which the Milky Way gobbled up billions of years ago.

研究人員是在研究HIP 13044恒星的時候發(fā)現(xiàn)了這顆太陽系外行星。恒星HIP 13044 又名Sergio(塞爾吉奧),取“在銀河系外起源的恒星”之意。它在曾經(jīng)是一個獨立的星系,在幾十億年前被銀河系吞并了。

The scientists saw Sergio wobbling due to the gravitational tug of a Jupiter-sized gas planet, which the scientists dubbed Sergio Junior. They detail their find in the journal Science.

科學(xué)家們觀察到Sergio(塞爾吉奧)由于受到一個木星大小的氣態(tài)行星造成的引力而變得不穩(wěn)定,科學(xué)家將這顆氣態(tài)行星戲稱為Sergio(塞爾吉奧)二世。他們在《科學(xué)》雜志上詳細敘述了自己的發(fā)現(xiàn)。

You don’t ordinarily find planets hanging around a star like Sergio. First, it's really old — past the Red Giant phase, when stars balloon in size and swallow up planets in close orbits. And planets tend to form around metal-rich stars, like our Sun. But Sergio has only one percent the metal content of our Sun. That doesn't jibe with one widely accepted model of planetary formation.

通常,你不會在如Sergio(塞爾吉奧)這樣的恒星周圍發(fā)現(xiàn)行星。首先,它非常非常老了——它經(jīng)歷過紅巨星階段,這一階段的恒星會急劇膨脹,吞噬在臨近軌道運行的行星。而行星往往會在富含金屬的恒星——好似我們的太陽這種恒星——周圍形成。可Sergio(塞爾吉奧)的金屬含量只有太陽的百分之一。這種情況跟一個被廣泛接受的行星形成模型并不一致。

The Sergios may offer a glimpse of the future of our own planetary system — in about five billion years. We hope to be back then with an update.

Sergios(塞爾吉奧)或許可以讓我們一窺自己的行星系統(tǒng)——大約50億年后的未來。到那時候,我們希望還能回來再更新節(jié)目給大家。

—Christopher Intagliata

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