Discover a new super-balloon exoplanet in the Kepler 51 system

On December 3, the discovery of a new planet orbiting the star Kepler 51 was announced in the scientific journal Astronomical Journal. Three other planets had already been found in this star, but they are very rare, they are extremely rare, we are discovering planets. . Yes, we should make a science fiction series because there really are very rare planets and these fall into the very rare category.

The discovery was made by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and Osaka University in Japan. With this new discovery, four planets would be added around this star. In the image we see three compared to the planets in the solar system, such as You see they are gas giants, but very gaseous.

This star is very similar to the sun, both in size and mass, the only difference is that it is much younger, if the sun is 4.5 billion years old Kepler 51 is only 500 million years old, despite its youth it is older . which is enough to have a stable system of planets, the intriguing thing about the matter is that they are very rare planets, they are of a special and strange type, they are called super globe planets.

Perhaps you have heard in a documentary or in a series or in a video, that Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system and that if it could be placed on a gigantic ocean of water, Saturn would float in water, a super balloon planet one of These are much more extreme, not only would they float on that hypothetical giant ocean, any breeze in that cosmic giant ocean would make them fly freely.

The planets of the Kepler 51 system are the size of Saturn, but their mass is only a few times that of the Earth, they would have a density similar to that of a cotton candy cloud, they are cloud planets, literally, I don't know if they can be cross, but at least laterally they have to be extremely light, I don't know how to define them, we are not clear how these planets are formed, from time to time a super balloon planet is found in some star system, but finding four in the same star it is very complicated to explain, there is no explanation right now, it is already difficult to explain when another star is found to explain four.

In addition, this new discovery is also a “super balloon” and the masses of the other three must be recalculated. Kepler 51e would be the one that would be the most on the limit, but they are still extremely volatile so that you have an idea, the new discovered world has a similar size to Saturn, but its mass is only 5.6 Earth masses, our beloved Saturn has about 95 Earth masses.

The orbit of this planet is about 130 days, it takes 130 days to complete its year and it does so at a distance that is half the distance that separates the earth from the sun. Although the star is very similar to the sun, it is very young. What its is less than that of the sun, is 66 times less than that of the sun, so this new world is in the habitable area, if it had a large moon, that Moon could have conditions suitable for life , although the question is These planets that almost look like clouds can have moons.

Both the new planet and its brothers and its star are located about 2,615 million years from Earth in the constellation of the Swan or rather in the direction of the Swan constellation, as you can see the zoo of worlds continues to increase.