Not only do apples fall close to the tree, but the tree’s history can strongly influence the taste of the apple.
Something similar can be said for planets. If you want to get to know a faraway planet better, say a small, rocky world tens or hundreds of light-years away, you’d best start by getting to know its star.
In reality, we can’t even find most planets outside our solar system — exoplanets — without help from their stars. Every planet detection method known requires a detailed dossier on the star, with very few exceptions: finding “rogue planets” that mysteriously wander the galaxy without stellar companions, and planets that are directly imaged – capturing pixels of light from the planets themselves.
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3 planets and the moon will light up the sky before sunrise | wtsp.com
If you're an early riser, take a look at the southeast-south sky to see the moon before sunrise alongside three famous planets: Jupiter, Saturn and Mars.
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As you look southeast to the south before the sun rises, Jupiter will be the brightest. Mars and Saturn will be fainter.
Find bright Jupiter first, and then nearby Saturn. Let those two planets, along with the waning gibbous moon, lead you to the next brightest thing in the sky, Mars.
'Mini Rover' can wiggle and crawl its way across tricky terrain on other planets - CNN
(CNN) Rovers exploring planetary surfaces like Mars or the moon can encounter soft, loose and steep soils, the perfect ingredients for getting stuck.
When baby planets melt | MIT News
Max Collinet PhD '19 (left) and Professor Tim Grove work together to extract an experimental sample from a one-of-a-kind rock-melting machine at MIT that reveals clues about planetesimals and the formation of the rocky planets like Earth and Mars.
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Let's start at the beginning. Before humans, before Earth, before any of the planets existed, there were baby planets — planetesimals. Coalesced from dust exploded outward by the solar nebula, these blobs of material were just a few kilometers in diameter. Soon, they too aggregated due to gravity to form the rocky planets in the innermost part of the solar system, leaving the early details about these planetesimals to the imagination.
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Kepler-88 has a new king!
It appears that planetary heavyweight Kepler-88 c, which orbits the sunlike star Kepler-88, is no longer the gravitational god of the exoplanets in the Kepler-88 system, according to a new study. A new world was recently confirmed in the system, tipping the scales at three times the mass of solar system giant Jupiter .
Led by a team of astronomers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (UH IfA), the research — which is based on six years of data taken from W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii — uncovered a previously undetected third exoplanet orbiting Kepler-88. Named Kepler-88 d, the newfound planet completes slow-moving laps around its host star every four years.
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Venus embraces the Pleiades, and 444 light-years apart they meet every eight years. Beijing, China, ... [+] April 3, 2020. - PHOTOGRAPH BY Costfoto / Barcroft Studios / Future Publishing
This week it's all about planets. Get up early and you'll see Jupiter, Saturn and Mars shining brightly in the south-southeast, while in the west after dark Venus continues to shine brightly—for now. These "wandering stars" are always moving fast, and as they orbit the Sun their apparent positions among the stars change dramatically as seen from our own orbiting planet.
Stunning new photos capture Jupiter's storms and the planet's orange glow | KOMO
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