Newly Discovered Solar System Flips What We Know About Planets

[BHopkins]

I just found this article in the local news. Apparently a newly discovered solar system, has a rock type planet that is far enough away from it's star, that it should be a gaseous planet. It sounds like this is a first.

https://www.ksl.com/article/5144759...-solar-system-they-say-should-not-be-possible

 

[CleanSump]

Every time I read a new discovery it has broken rules. There's a gaseous planet so close to it's star that it shouldn't be able to even exist. It's like Jupiter was where Mercury is. And we have people here who say humanity understands it all?

 

[JeffKeryk]

Interesting... Here's additional detail from Scientific American on LHS 1903.

Yeah, we live in a pretty big place... Interesting.

 

[dnewton3]

Science. Always 100%, infallibly repeatable, accurate and true.
Until it isn't ...

Then we have to readjust our understanding and shift the paradigm.
Until the next discovery ...

 

[97prizm]

Science. Always 100%, infallibly repeatable, accurate and true.
Until it isn't ...

Then we have to readjust our understanding and shift the paradigm.
Until the next discovery ...

Yeah it's like nobody thought anything could live in the Marianas Trench (why would it?) Yet there are weird creatures down there. The two planets that absorb 99.9% of sunlight always got me... How? What is that black on a planet? WASP-104b and TrES-2b. And why the weird names?