Image of Exoplanete PSR B1620-26 b - Mathusalem - Exoplanet PSR B1620-26 by Miller, Ron (b.1947)

Exoplanete PSR B1620-26 b - Mathusalem - Exoplanet PSR B1620-26 b - Methuselah: PSR B1620-26...

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Image title: Exoplanete PSR B1620-26 b - Mathusalem - Exoplanet PSR B1620-26 b - Methuselah: PSR B1620-26 b, unofficially nicknamed Mathusalem is a circumbinary exoplanet of about 2.5 Jovian masses. It would be the oldest known planet, perhaps 13 billion years old. Discovered in 1993 around the binary system formed by PSR B1620-26 and WD B1620-26, respectively a pulsar and a white dwarf orbiting around each other. This system is approximately 12,400 light-years away from Earth in the M4 globular cluster of the constellation Scorpio. PSR B1620-26 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 12,400 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius. It bears the unofficial nickname “” Methuselah”” due to its extreme age. The planet is in a circumbinary orbit around a pulsar (PSR B1620-26) and a white dwarf (WD B1620-26)) and is the first circumbinary planet ever confirmed. It is also the first planet found in a globular cluster. The planet is one of the oldest known extrasolar planets, believed to be about 12.7 billion years old
Artist: Miller, Ron (b.1947) / American
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Image description: Exoplanete PSR B1620-26 b - Mathusalem - Exoplanet PSR B1620-26 b - Methuselah: PSR B1620-26 b, unofficially nicknamed Mathusalem is a circumbinary exoplanet of about 2.5 Jovian masses. It would be the oldest known planet, perhaps 13 billion years old. Discovered in 1993 around the binary system formed by PSR B1620-26 and WD B1620-26, respectively a pulsar and a white dwarf orbiting around each other. This system is approximately 12,400 light-years away from Earth in the M4 globular cluster of the constellation Scorpio. PSR B1620-26 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 12,400 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius. It bears the unofficial nickname “” Methuselah”” due to its extreme age. The planet is in a circumbinary orbit around a pulsar (PSR B1620-26) and a white dwarf (WD B1620-26)) and is the first circumbinary planet ever confirmed. It is also the first planet found in a globular cluster. The planet is one of the oldest known extrasolar planets, believed to be about 12.7 billion years old
Photo credit: © Ron Miller/Novapix / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: astronomy / scorpius / astronomy / scorpion / illustration / planet / 1993 / Novapix / Globular cluster / astronomy / Globular cluster / planet / Exoplanete / exoplanet

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