Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
2d ago
New research may have revived the mystery of 8 Ursae Minoris b, a seemingly doomed exoplanet that shouldn’t exist.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
1w ago
A new planet candidate discovered in data from NASA's TESS mission could be an extreme lavaworld, pushed and pulled by the gravity of its own star and two other close-in planets.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
1M ago
New research suggests Exoplanet K2-18b may actually be a gas-rich planet with no habitable surface instead of a habitable water world.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
2M 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
4M 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
4M ago
James Webb Space Telescope observations of a faint, giant world have revealed the signature of aurorae — even though the world has no star.
The post Unexplained Auroras Found on a Lonely Brown Dwarf appeared first on Sky & Telescope ..read more
Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
4M ago
Exomoon candidates are tantalizing but, according to new research, perhaps unfounded.
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Sky & Telescope | Exoplanets
6M 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
6M 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
6M ago
New observations have turned up evidence that icy pebbles deliver the water to inner regions of planet-forming disks.
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