最靚嘅行星？
相信大家都可能聽過早前有位年僅17歲嘅NASA暑期實習生發現咗一顆名為TOI 1338 b嘅「少女色星球」🦄🦄依粒行星顏色好夢幻，吸引咗唔少人關注，網上亦廣泛流傳佢嘅「相」。噉其實依粒行星有咩咁特別呢？佢嘅外貌係咪真係咁少女、夢幻呢🧚🏻♀🧚🏻♀
好遺憾，其實網上流傳嘅「相」並非真係一張相📸📸因為依粒行星距離地球1300光年，而大細亦只係地球嘅6.9倍，以現時科技根本無法幫佢影相❌❌其中一張流傳嘅相，其實係透過Squids-among-stars生成出嚟🤖🤖佢係一個喺內華達大學（University of Nevada）修讀計算機科學與工程嘅學生創建嘅bot🧩🧩
張相其實喺TOI 1338 b被發現前嘅幾個月就已經生成咗出嚟，而NASA網頁入面TOI 1338 b嘅動畫亦只係透過電腦軟件摸擬氣體行星出嚟嘅效果💨💨所以粒行星到底係唔係少女粉紅色，實在要等科技更加成熟，試下探測佢嘅成分、大氣活動，先有機會模擬得更準確🧑🏻💻👩🏻💻
噉既然唔知佢靚唔靚，呢個行星有咩特別之處呢🔥🔥TOI 1338 b，由Wolf Cukier發現。佢透過分析TESS（Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite凌日系外行星巡天衛星）依個太空望遠鏡所傳送畀地球嘅數據🛰🛰留意到TOI 1338系統入面，唔單只有2粒恆星彼此兜圈🔄🔄仲有TOI 1338 b依粒行星圍住佢哋公轉🔃🔃
即係話，如果我哋住喺上面，就會好似星球大戰入面嘅天行者故鄉噉，每日睇到2個日落🌅🌅依種行星就叫做環聯星運轉行星（circumbinary planet）。
噉啫係咩呢？我哋身處嘅太陽系裏面，太陽係恆星🌞🌞而水星、火星、地球等八大行星就圍住太陽公轉。當2粒恆星圍住同一點（質心）轉，依個恆星系統就叫做聯星系統（binary star）。如果有行星圍住依對聯星轉🎠🎠粒行星就叫環聯星運轉行星。
已被確認嘅環聯星運轉行星得非常之少🤏🏻🤏🏻只有不足30粒。而TOI 1338b係第一個透過TESS發現嘅環聯星運轉行星🤩🤩即使未必係夢幻少女色，我哋都不得不佩服嗰位實習生對數據嘅觀察力呀🙇🏻♂🙇🏻♀亦都期待假以時日，科技更成熟之時，可以更進一步分析TOI 1338b上面嘅成分，睇下佢係咪真係夢幻少女色🤣🤣
#最美行星#夢幻顏色#有相有證據但其實嗰張唔係相#環聯星運轉行星
The Most Beautiful Planet?
As everyone might have heard of through internet recently, there was a 17 years old intern in NASA who discovered the ‘TOI 1338 b’ exoplanet. The stunning appearance of the planet has attracted many people’s attention, 🦄🦄 and its photos are spread virally around the world. So, what is so special about this planet? Does it actually look that fascinating? 🧚🏻♀🧚🏻♀
Unfortunately, with the current technology, it is essentially impossible to take photos of this planet using cameras due to its distance from Earth. ❌❌ TOI 1338 b is 1300 light years away from us, and its size is only 6.9 times the size of Earth. That photo on internet was actually made by a computer science engineer from the University of Nevada via ‘squids-among-stars’, 🤖🤖 a bot that generates photos of distant planets. 🧩🧩
The photo was in fact generated three months prior to the exoplanet’s discovery. Moreover, the animation of the TOI 1338 b on NASA website was only the virtual effect from the gas-planet-modelling-software. 💨💨
Therefore, the physical appearance of the exoplanet is still yet to be known. We need to have a more advanced technology to explore on the characteristics of the planet, in order to obtain a more accurate virtual model of this TOI 1338 b exoplanet. 🧑🏻💻👩🏻💻
Now that we know the planet does not look like this, what is so special about it then? 🔥🔥
In fact, this so called TOI 1338 b exoplanet was discovered by Wolf Cukier, a teenage intern from the Scarsdale High School who was analysing the space telescope TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). 🛰🛰 He noticed that not only is there 2 stars in the TOI 1338 system, but also the exoplanet TOI 1338 b, which orbits around the binary stars. 🔄🔃