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Yeah, "dense" kind of under-sells it. Given the distance to its host star, I would guess that this must be a gas giant core that had its outer envelope blown aw
by archermarks 3y ago
Yeah, "dense" kind of under-sells it. Given the distance to its host star, I would guess that this must be a gas giant core that had its outer envelope blown away? Otherwise this seems hard to fit into our typical models of planet formation
- vba616 3y ago> I would guess that this must be a gas giant core that had its outer envelope blown away Well yeah? From what I read, this is a larger star than average, as well as a really close orbit. I am failing to understand why this is surprising to the experts because the description sounds to me like the sort of exoplanet that there is/was a heavy bias towards from the beginning.
- Zardoz84 3y agoYeah, I was thinking that sounds like a good candidate to chthonian planet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chthonian_planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chthonian_planet )