Planet janet seattle

Sign in. Polar day. Loading stars Mercury rise and set in Seattle Fairly close to the Sun. Visible around sunrise and sunset only. Mercury Time:. Venus rise and set in Seattle View after sunset.

Venus Time:. Mars rise and set in Seattle Very close to Sun, hard or impossible to see. Mars Time:. Jupiter rise and set in Seattle View after sunset. Jupiter Time:. Saturn rise and set in Seattle View after sunset. Saturn Time:. Uranus rise and set in Seattle Up most of the night. Bring binoculars. Uranus Time:. The planet was first spotted because of the light-warping effects of its gravitational field, a phenomenon known as microlensing.

After searching for years for its host star with the Keck II telescope in Hawaii, Blackman and his colleagues concluded it was orbiting a white dwarf that is too faint to directly observe. Astronomers using a different method last year reported spotting another intact Jupiter-like planet, known as WD b, closely orbiting a white dwarf. But MOABLGLb circles its hidden stellar husk at nearly 3 times the distance between Earth and the sun, making it the first known planet to occupy a Jupiter-like orbit around a white dwarf.

WD b, by contrast, orbits its white dwarf every 1. Andrew Vanderburg, an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who led the team that discovered WD b, said the conclusions of the new study appear solid.

He also noted that planets with wide orbits around white dwarfs are probably more abundant than those in tight orbits, but that the latter group are simpler to detect. The new discoveries can yield insights about the search for extraterrestrial life and the potential habitability of white dwarf systems. Dying stars spew out harmful radiation as they grow into a phase called red giants and introduce turbulence in their systems that could obliterate life.

But there are some speculative scenarios that might preserve the habitability of white dwarf systems.