Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
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Sky & Tel covers the latest night-sky events, astronomy news, astrophotography and observing tips.Keep up with the latest on exoplanets - from hot Jupiters to super-Earths and Earth-like planets, the hunt for the next pale blue dot continues.
Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
3w ago
JWST has directly imaged two giant exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars. This discovery may reveal the fate of our solar system.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
2M ago
New Webb data suggests that the hot super-Earth 55 Cancri e has a thick atmosphere, perhaps maintained by the planet's magma ocean.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
2M ago
James Webb Space Telescope observations of a faint, giant world have revealed the signature of aurorae — even though the world has no star.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
3M ago
Exomoon candidates are tantalizing but, according to new research, perhaps unfounded.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
4M ago
Astronomers have uncovered six sub-Neptune exoplanets dancing in lock-step around the same distant star, shedding light on their formation.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
4M ago
A mere 200 light-years away, there's a planet with the density of styrofoam and clouds of sand. How did it get so weird?
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
4M ago
New observations have turned up evidence that icy pebbles deliver the water to inner regions of planet-forming disks.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
6M ago
Astronomers have discovered two Neptune-size planets that are denser than rock and in searingly close orbits to their star. How did these odd worlds form?
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
6M ago
Data coming from the Webb and Hubble space telescopes suggests two exoplanets might be water worlds. But the evidence isn’t yet definitive.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
8M ago
This week, James Webb Space Telescope reveals new details in the Ring Nebula and shows that the most distant known star isn't alone. Meanwhile, patient astronomers have collected 17 years' worth of images of the super-Jupiter Beta Pictoris b.
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