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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Wasps signs of greatness in the heavens.
« on: January 11, 2022, 02:52:36 PM »
I’ve just posted this on the DW site as it and thought I’d add it here seeing as it’s Wasps news of Galatic proportions…
I saw this in the Independent today and had to chuckle at the irony - maybe it's a sign of greatness to come or a box kick that went too high..
Apparently astronomers have discovered the first exoplanet that's not spherical. It's shaped like a rugby ball due and has been called Wasp-103b as orbits a distant star called Wasp-103.
Astronomers have found a “deformed” exoplanet shaped like a rugby ball for the first time.https://www.independent.co.uk/space/planet-round-shape-deformed-wasp-103b-b1990735.html
"The planet has been stretched out and squashed down by the tidal forces between it and Wasp-103, the distant star around which it orbits. That star is about 200 degrees hotter and 1.7 times bigger than our Sun.
The unusual planet known as Wasp-103b was spotted using new data from Cheops, the European Space Agency’s mission to find exoplanets, which was combined with existing information from the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes."
I saw this in the Independent today and had to chuckle at the irony - maybe it's a sign of greatness to come or a box kick that went too high..
Apparently astronomers have discovered the first exoplanet that's not spherical. It's shaped like a rugby ball due and has been called Wasp-103b as orbits a distant star called Wasp-103.
Astronomers have found a “deformed” exoplanet shaped like a rugby ball for the first time.https://www.independent.co.uk/space/planet-round-shape-deformed-wasp-103b-b1990735.html
"The planet has been stretched out and squashed down by the tidal forces between it and Wasp-103, the distant star around which it orbits. That star is about 200 degrees hotter and 1.7 times bigger than our Sun.
The unusual planet known as Wasp-103b was spotted using new data from Cheops, the European Space Agency’s mission to find exoplanets, which was combined with existing information from the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes."
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