This star is about 2 light-years away from our Earth, and there is a "big guy" companion named HATP0b. This guy is not an ordinary planet, with eight times the quality of Jupiter, and can be called a "heavyweight" among exoplanets. It also runs wildly around the stars, like a disobedient child, sometimes close to the stars, hot as if it is close to a furnace, sometimes running away, as cold as falling into an ice cave. Scientists say that this kind of orbit is like pulling a rubber band, which is tight and loose, and the changes are staggering.
Scientists scratched their scalps and didn't expect that they originally thought that planets had the ability to make stars "shake three times", but the data didn't give face. The quality of HATP2b is ridiculously large, and it may be that every time it gets close, it forcibly tears the surface of the star into a deformation, like kneading dough, and produces a pulse-like flash. This kind of thing has not been mentioned in previous theoretical models. One of the researchers, Julien de Intelligence, couldn't help but sigh: "It's like discovering that your cat can play the piano, completely subverting cognition!" ”
It actually happened quite accidentally. The team didn't want to catch any pulses, their goal was to figure out the atmospheric temperature distribution of HATP2b, and to know how the planet "carried" the heat thrown by the star. Because its track is like a roller coaster, the temperature is as cold as the winter in the Northeast and as hot as the summer in Hainan. Scientists have wondered if they could draw a temperature map to know how the wind blows in the planet's atmosphere and what secrets it contains.
For the sake of this "map", they stared at the data of the telescope, eager to stick their eyes to it. As a result, the temperature did not understand, but it hit the "heartbeat" of the star first. The pulses were frighteningly regular, like the ticking of an old-fashioned clock, and one wondered if an alien was playing a prank. The data doesn't lie, and the research team can only admit that the planet may really have the ability to make the star "jump".
This discovery is not insignificant. In the past, everyone thought that stars were the "big guys" in the sky, and the planets could only revolve around them honestly. Now it seems that planets can also "tease" stars in turn, like a small man can pull a big man to dance. This has led astronomers to re-open the book and wonder if the old theories have to be changed. Think about it, if we find more such "dance partners" in the future, our understanding of the universe will not be reversed?