(CNN) Exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, that contain more carbon than Earth could be made out of diamonds, according to a new study.
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Planets Take Virtual Shape on Earth with NASA Knowledge and Imagery | NASA
Two Mini-Neptunes Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star | Astronomy | Sci-News.com
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the HARPS fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph mounted at the 3.6-m telescope of ESO's La Silla observatory, astronomers have discovered and confirmed two massive transiting planets around the G-type dwarf star TOI-763.
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"There are relatively few planets smaller than Neptune for which both the size and mass has been measured," Professor Malcolm Fridlund , an astronomer at Leiden Observatory and Onsala Space Observatory at the Chalmers University of Technology, and his colleagues wrote in their paper.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Unveiling rogue planets with NASA's Roman Space Telescope -- ScienceDaily
New simulations show that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets -- freely floating bodies that drift through our galaxy untethered to a star. Studying these island worlds will help us understand more about how planetary systems form, evolve, and break apart.
Astronomers discovered planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, in the 1990s. We quickly went from knowing of only our own planetary system to realizing that planets likely outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy. Now, a team of scientists is finding ways to improve our understanding of planet demographics by searching for rogue worlds.
Rare positioning of six planets today
A remarkable positioning of six planets in their own houses-the rarest of rare phenomena will be witnessed for 51 hours, 48 minutes from 10.37 am of September 13 to 2.25 pm on Tuesday (September 15).
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However, Gargeya said that such positioning will be witnessed again on July 2, 2022 (9.45 am) to July 3 (6.30 am) for 20 hours and 45 minutes. He said that the latter positioning will be better than the present positioning of the planets as the planets will be positioned like a string and that would be a good sign for the country.
Carbide Planets May Be Made Of Silica and Diamonds | Astronomy, Planetary Science | Sci-News.com
Extrasolar planets hosted by stars with sufficiently high carbon-to-oxygen ratios could be made of diamonds and silica, according to new research by Arizona State University and the University of Chicago.
An artist's impression of a carbide planet with diamond and silica as main minerals. Image ctredit: Shim / ASU / Vecteezy.
When stars and planets are formed, they do so from the same cloud of gas, so their bulk compositions are similar.
A warm Jupiter orbiting a cool star
Originally detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spacecraft, astronomers characterized the planet's mass, radius, and its orbital period using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas. A paper describing the research appears in the September 2020 issue of the Astronomical Journal and is publicly accessible on arXiv.
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Rich Universe: Study Suggests Possibility of Hidden Diamond Core in Carbon-rich Exoplanets - by @MrigDixit… https://t.co/IOGQdyhZnT weatherindia (from India) Mon Sep 14 08:47:50 +0000 2020
Woods and trees can be amazing places for people, storing carbon and for wildlife too. Crucially, we believe we nee… https://t.co/lqGleuZeX1 nationaltrust (from UK) Mon Sep 14 17:25:04 +0000 2020
Carbon-rich planets made of diamonds may exist beyond our solar system, study says https://t.co/obtpGfVzEK CTVNews Mon Sep 14 21:12:26 +0000 2020
#Diamond planets could be born from #carbon-rich #worlds – just add #water! #Astronomers suggest that some #planets… https://t.co/tHgkAhSSV3 Techfest_IITB (from IIT Bombay, Mumbai) Mon Sep 14 10:04:24 +0000 2020
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