Space research, which continues unabated, makes new discoveries about the depths of the universe possible every day. A new study that was also recently published smallest star ever observed It shows that it was discovered by scientists.

TMTS J0526B This star, called ‘subdwarf’ type, was discovered by an international research team from Tsinghua University in China. The findings have been published on Nature Astronomy.

J0526B is only 7 times larger than Earth, smaller than Jupiter and Saturn

*An artist’s rendering of the TMTS J0526 star system.

Discovered by a team of scientists from China, Australia, the US and Europe, J0526B is part of a binary star system. This subdwarf, found via Tsinghua University’s Ma Huateng Survey Telescope (TMTS), is visible from Earth. It is located at a distance of 2,760 light years.

The size is very small compared to the stars. According to the study, J0526B only comes from Earth 7 floors taller. this too It is smaller than Jupiter and Saturn resources. The researchers add that it has one-third the mass of the Sun and burns helium at a surface temperature of 2,000 degrees Celsius.

We mentioned that J0526B is part of a binary star system. Another member of this system is a larger white dwarf called J0526A. Two stars around each other rotates every 20 minutes. Interestingly, scientists cannot directly observe J0526A. However, in their statement they said that this large star is there due to the effects of gravity on J0526B. In fact, it is said that this attraction is so strong that J0526B takes the shape of an egg.

Scientists believe the discovery will shed light on new information about the formation of hot subdwarf stars in the universe. They also add that this star matches predictions made by Chinese researchers 20 years ago about such small stars in binary systems. Those researchers predicted that small stars like J0526B could form from mass changes within binary systems.

The smallest star before J0526B, located 600 light-years from Earth EBLM J0555-57Ab used to be. Announced in a 2017 study led by the University of Cambridge, this small red dwarf was slightly larger than Saturn.