'Super planet' discovered by scientists using radio telescope for the first time

In a recent study, astromers have discovered a cold 'brown dwarf' also kwn as a ‘super planet’-BDR J1750+3809 with help of a rio telescope. Scientists have nicknamed  faint super-planet as 'Elegast' that has remained elusive to standard infrared survey methods. It was first identified by using data from Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) rio telescope in Nerlands.

Elegast first to be detected using a rio telescope

Generally, brown dwarfs are referred to as failed stars or super planets because y are too small to be considered stars, yet too big to be considered planets.  substellar object is usually discovered by infrared sky surveys, however, Elegast was  first substellar object to be detected using a rio telescope, according to a statement from University of Hawaii. 

Michael Liu, co-author of study and researcher from University of Hawaii Institute for Astromy, said in statement that  work opens a whole new method to finding  coldest objects floating in sun's vicinity, which would orwise be too faint to discover with methods used for past 25 years.

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As brown dwarfs are too tiny to become stars, y don't undergo same nuclear fusion reactions that fuel bright stars, like sun. Hence, y are smaller, darker, and colder than rmal stars, making m harder to find using conventional methods, such as infrared instruments, researchers said. Brown dwarfs can however emit light at rio wavelengths, y ded.

After discovering Elegast using  LOFAR rio telescope, scientists later confirmed ir observations using International Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and Chile and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, which is operated by University of Hawaii. 

According to statement, using LOFAR instrument to detect Elegast describes an invative approach that could help scientists discover or celestial objects, such as gas giant exoplanets, that are extremely cold or faint to be detected by infrared surveys. Furr, latest research was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters on vember 9.

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