Astronomers have found a star Beta Pictoris where planets are forming extra carbon. Experts believe that such planets make smoggy atmospheres, tar-covered terrain, and vast diamond deposits.



The star Beta Pictoris is about twice of our sun and quite close to us in following cosmological terms:



1. 60 light years away, the time taken by light to cover.

2. At less than 20 million years of age



beta pictoris



Surprisingly it is carbon-rich environment. Approx 22 years ago, astronomers discovered the gas and dusk around Beta Pictoris. It was assumed that it is same composition as in our solar system. They also get strange after seeing the blasting of disk lingers in light particles named ‘photons’ as the intense radiation from the big and young star.



Nature, the journal reports from a U.S. space agency satellite named Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, or FUSE.



Aki Roberge, Space agency astronomer, said, Carbon doesn’t get rapidly blown away from the star, because only high energy photons are capable of pushing the carbon away. She said that carbon resists the intense radiation pushing on star. According to her, the star does not emit so many high-energy photons.

NASA, carbon is quite rich element that comes from asteroids and comets. Since the planets build up from asteroid collisions, the researchers suggest that Beta Pictoris have super-abundances of carbon compounds.



Marc Kuchner, a NASA planetary expert told that world would be covered with sooty methane smog and tar, with mountains made of giant diamonds.



beta pictoris in diamond view

Via : Voanews