The telescope notes “the most extreme planet ever,” as the surface temperature of the Earth reaches 3200 degrees Celsius

A new space telescope has cast a glimpse of a planet astronomers describe as one of the planets The “most extreme” in the known universe.

WASP-189b was scanned by the CHEOPS Space Telescope – astronomers believe its surface is at a temperature of 3,200 ° C, and it’s hot enough to convert iron into gas.

Planet 322 light years from Earth In the constellation LIbra.

The planet is one and a half times the size of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system – and it has one side permanently turned toward its hot, burning blue star.

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This leads to extremely high temperatures, but as lead author Monica Lindel notes, WASP-189b is much more extreme than another planet of its kind.

Lindel says, “WASP-189b is especially interesting because it is a gas giant orbiting near its host star.”

“It takes less than 3 days for it to orbit its star, which is 20 times closer than it is from Earth to the sun.”

“ Based on observations using CHEOPS, we estimate the temperature of WASP-189b to be 3200 ° C.

“Planets such as WASP-189b are called“ extremely hot Jupiter planets. ”Iron melts at this high temperature and even becomes gaseous. This object is one of the most extreme planets we know so far.

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Even the star WASP-189b orbiting is very different from the Sun.

“The star is much larger and hotter than our sun by more than two thousand degrees Celsius,” Lindel says. “Because the weather is very hot, the star appears blue and not yellow and white like the sun.”

Lindel says the planet was spotted by watching it pass in front of its host star.

When a planet passes in front of its star as seen from Earth, the star appears weaker for a short time.

This phenomenon is called crossing over.

“Because an exoplanet WASP-189b is so close to its star, the side of its day is so bright that we can measure the ‘lost’ light when the planet passes behind its star; this is called a cloud,” Lindel says.

“It appears that the planet does not reflect much starlight. Instead, the planet absorbs most of the starlight, which causes it to heat up and make it shine.”

Researchers believe the planet is not very reflective because there are no clouds on its daytime side.

“This is not surprising, as theoretical models tell us that clouds cannot form at these high temperatures,” says Lindel.