The planetary formation models indicate that the formation of giant planets is much more difficult around low-mass stars due to the scale of the masses of the protoplanetary disk with stellar mass. However, a team of astrophysicists has just discovered a planet of 53 Earth masses orbiting a star of 0.2 solar masses. They publish their study in Nature Astronomy.
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The planetary formation models indicate that the formation of giant planets is much more difficult around low-mass stars due to the scale of the masses of the protoplanetary disk with stellar mass. However, a team of astrophysicists has just discovered a planet of 53 Earth masses orbiting a star of 0.2 solar masses. They publish their study in Nature Astronomy.