Friday, December 1, 2023

Planet Seems Too Big for Its Host Star

 



 Astronomers have discovered a plant that is unusually large for its host star. This planet while 13 times the size of Earth orbits a star called LHS 3154 which 1/9th the size of the sun. This planet also orbited the star in just 3.7 Earth days. The key problem for naturalistic theories of planetary formation is that a planet-forming disk around as a low-mass star as LHS 3154 is not expected to have enough solid mass to produce such a large planet. 

Reference: Astronomers spot ‘overweight’ planet that appears too big for tiny host star.

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