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Astronomers Uncover the Secrets of a Mysterious ‘Steam World’ in Pisces

October 8, 2024No Comments3 Mins Read
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A Canadian-led international study has revealed new insights into the atmosphere of GJ 9827 d, an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ 9827 in the constellation Pisces, about 98 light-years from Earth. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have discovered that this ‘steam world’ has a high concentration of heavier molecules, including a significant amount of water vapor, making it a remarkable find in the search for habitable environments beyond our solar system. Exoplanet and atmospheric research are crucial steps towards understanding the diversity of planetary systems and the potential for life in the universe.

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The study found that the planet’s atmosphere contains a high concentration of heavier molecules, including a significant amount of water vapor. Credit: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STSCI), Ralf Crawford (STSCI)

The Cosmic Basin of Attraction Revealed

New studies suggest that the Milky Way and its Laniakea Supercluster may belong to a larger structure called the Shapley Concentration. The researchers hence compared an image of the Abell 1763 galaxy cluster — which lies in this “basin of attraction” a region with extremely high gravitational tug that includes a huge network of galaxy clusters and groups, according to NASA — taken by the Hubble Space Telescope with a corresponding three-dimensional map of dark matter.

The find upends our understanding of the cosmos order, the team said. The Laniakea database supercluster, until now figured that the source of whatever spins back again to the most plenitude of them all not seen component within the mention library cosmic net. Astronomers have since been preparing to create a complete map of those “basins of attraction” to reveal the large-scale structure of the cosmos.

Studying the Motion of Far-Off Galaxies

The project is part of an effort to clarify the vast cosmic structure and has been constructed by a team of astronomers lead by R. Brent Tully, from the University of Hawai’i in USA, who have been charting the movements of more than 56, 000 galaxies in painstaking detail. They thus study the “redshift” of these remote objects to infer their radial velocities, and deduce gravitational interactions.

According to the data from Tully’s project “CosmicFlows,” the Virgo Supercluster — which our own Milky Way galaxy is part of — is rushing towards the Shapley Concentration. This then implies that the Shapley Concentration could be the largest “attractor” guiding the motion of galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. Expect further work from astronomers researching subtle wobbles in the motion of galaxies, trying to confirm and quantify just how far-reaching an impact the Shapley Concentration has.

Unveiling cosmic structure formation secrets

Finding these enormous shallowest attraction basins from such a huge cosmic volume concerns with our current comprehension of the way structures form in the universe. These structures had their seeds planted in the very first instants after the Big Bang, when tiny fluctuations in the density of matter started to clump together into the tangled web of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters that we can see now.

This is because astronomers will be able to map the movements and velocities of galaxies within these basins, which could go a long way towards revealing the distribution of matter – especially dark matter, that mysterious invisible stuff thought to make up some 80 per cent of all the mass in the universe. Such analyses might yield insights at a much deeper level, on the formation and evolution of the largest structures in our cosmos, and thereby some principles that drive the dynamics of our universe.

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