{"id":172314,"date":"2023-09-19T02:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T07:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scaled-up-version-of-solar-system-discovered-around-star-that-will-go-supernova"},"modified":"2023-09-19T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T07:30:53","slug":"scaled-up-version-of-solar-system-discovered-around-star-that-will-go-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scaled-up-version-of-solar-system-discovered-around-star-that-will-go-supernova","title":{"rendered":"Scaled-Up Version Of Solar System Discovered Around Star That Will Go Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scaled-up-version-of-solar-system-discovered-around-star-that-will-go-supernova2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most exoplanets that have been discovered over the last few decades happened to go around stars that are roughly the same size as the Sun. Some are a bit bigger and many a lot smaller. Planets have been discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/the-first-discovered-exoplanet-was-a-much-rarer-find-than-previously-thought-64395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">around pulsars<\/a>, the extreme end product of supernovae, so astronomers expect that planets are to be found around the massive star that will one day explode as a supernova. Two such planets have recently been discovered and the whole setup looks like a blown-up version of our own Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>The star in question is called \u03bc<sup>2<\/sup> Sco which is part of the Scorpius-Centaurus association. This is a group of young stars, no older than 20 million years. Among them, \u03bc<sup>2<\/sup> Sco (pronounced Mew two, yes like the legendary Pokemon) is a massive, blue, hot star that weighs about nine times our Sun. The observations conducted in this study suggest the presence of two candidate companions.<\/p>\n<p>These are called CC0 and \u03bc<sup>2<\/sup> Sco b. The first has not been confirmed completely yet. It appears to have a mass of about 18.5 times that of Jupiter. The team is confident in the detection of the second one, which has a mass of about 14.4 Jupiters, so it gets the proper planet name. The team uses the term planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most exoplanets that have been discovered over the last few decades happened to go around stars that are roughly the same size as the Sun. Some are a bit bigger and many a lot smaller. Planets have been discovered around pulsars, the extreme end product of supernovae, so astronomers expect that planets are to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}