The exoplanet, which should not be

The exoplanet, which is held in the directories with the code HATS-6b, too much . Its size is approximately the size of Jupiter, and the planet orbits its star at a rather strange orbit (the distance from the planet to the star - 1/10 of the distance from the Sun to Mercury). Of course, the year is very short and is 3 3 Earth days.

The star around which a strange planet called HATS-6, it was classified as an M-dwarf. It's pretty cold star, the brightness of which is 1/12 of the brightness of our sun. But that's not all. According to the calculations of astronomers, according to current indicators of the size, mass, and orbits of these celestial bodies, such a system can not exist (in theory). Such a conclusion was made by scientists of the Australian National University.

Somehow, such a system was formed, but so far scientists do not understand how and why - according to all the canons of astronomy, such systems can not exist. The mass of the planet, according to expert estimates, roughly equal to the mass of Saturn. Its size, as mentioned above, is the size of Jupiter. The oddity is that the star around which the planet does not heat the HATS-6b sufficiently, and the whole system is very different from any other planet star systems, astronomers detected earlier. At the moment, the basic theory of the origin of the system - the assumption that the planet formed around another star, and then somehow HATS-6b changed its shine.

The atmosphere of the planet HATS-6b - the object of close study scientists. So far, astronomers have suggested that this planet is a gas giant, and it consists mainly of hydrogen and helium. This system is located 500 light years from Earth.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/249922/