An animation was recently posted on Twitter by a planetary astronomer James O’Donoghue and it shows the size of Jupiter and how fast it is spinning. This clip further explains how the planets in the Solar System are dominated by Jupiter, which is further dwarfed by the Sun. “To scale in size, rotational speed and inclination of celestial bodies,” read the caption. The Twitter thread further explains how a day on Jupiter is 9hr 56min. “In the early Solar System this would have been increased by the weight of the material orbiting the Sun, converting the orbital momentum into spin angular momentum. For this reason the larger planets are likely to accelerate,” read the thread.
Since being uploaded, the animation has garnered nearly 15 million views. Several Twitter users also responded to the animation. One user wrote, “My humour is so bad, why did I laugh when Jupiter came on screen.” Another person wrote, “I’ve seen this clip many times before, it’s so fascinating. And when Jupiter (!!!) ) and Saturn start appearing in the frame??! “See how there’s a huge jump in size as we go from Jupiter to the Sun? That’s just two orders of magnitude difference. That’s a difference between $100 million (how much is committed to Harvard’s compensation) and $40 billion (endowments) What a great way to imagine it,” wrote another user.
Meanwhile, scientists from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)-led mission, have discovered an extremely hot Jupiter-like planet estimated to have an orbit around five times the mass of Jupiter. Is. around its star in just 16 hours. The planet, identified as TOI-2109b, has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant to date. The findings by the international team of scientists were published in the Astronomical Journal.
The study revealed that due to its extremely tight orbit and proximity to its star, the planet’s day is estimated to be close to 3,500 Kelvin, or 3227 °C, about as hot as a small star. This makes TOI-2109b, the second hottest planet ever found.
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