{"id":125169,"date":"2026-09-19T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=125169"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:00:32","slug":"elias-2-24-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/elias-2-24-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Elias 2-24 b"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Elias 2-24 b Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, astronomers have discovered the youngest exoplanet on record, and named it as Elias 2-24 b.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Elias 2-24 b<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>an exoplanet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is still whirling in its natal disk of dust and gas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>youngest known planet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discovered so far and located roughly <\/span><b>450 light-years from Earth.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Size:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is orbiting the <\/span><b>star Elias 2-24<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a size is somewhere between two and four times as massive as Jupiter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The planet is still in the process of forming <\/span><b>within its native gas-and-dust disk.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is far younger (less than 1 million years old) than the <\/span><b>previous record holders.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previous record holders for the youngest known planets were more than 5 million years old. They included two planets around <\/span><b>PDS 70 and two around WISPIT 2.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elias 2-24 b orbits its young star at a distance of <\/span><b>about 55 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What are Exoplanets?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are planets that orbit other stars <\/span><b>and are beyond our <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/solar-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">solar system.<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exoplanets come in a host of different sizes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can be gas giants bigger than Jupiter or as small and rocky as Earth. They are also known to have different kinds of temperatures; boiling to cold<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/magazines\/panache\/astronomers-have-found-a-baby-planet-and-named-it-elias-2-24-b-the-jupiter-size-world-is-less-than-1-million-years-old\/articleshow\/134334894.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elias 2-24 b is an exoplanet which is still whirling in its natal disk of dust and gas. 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