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“Bhibha” and “Santamasa”
December 21 , 2019
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- International Astronomical Union (IAU) named a white yellow star in Sextans Constellation as “Bhibha” and its planet as “Santamasa”.
- The star has been named in honour of a pioneering Indian woman scientist Bibha Choudhury, who discovered subatomic particle, pi-meson.
- Bhibha is an ageing star that is 6.2 billion years old and Santamsa is its only planet.
- The mass of the planet is expected to be 1.5 times as that of Jupiter and is very hot.
- Santamasa completed its revolution around its star in just about 2.1375 days.
- Significantly, the 2019 nobel prize in Physics was awarded to the discovery of an exoplanet.
About IAU
- It was founded in 1919, headquartered in Paris, France.
- It is the global authority for naming planetary features in the solar system.
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