A number of people on social media have been sharing pictures of "a new planet" that they say NASA recently found. One person claims that it is a planet called TOI 1338 b .
There are some very beautiful close-up photographs of the planets in our solar system. Pictures of more distant "exoplanets" do not yet show so much detail. They generally look more like this photo of the star TYC 8998-760-1 (top left), with two giant planets beneath it.
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Dyson Sphere Program's planetary production lines enter early access | PC Gamer
Interstellar factory-builder Dyson Sphere Program has begun cracking open planets with today's launch on Steam Early Access.
Following the game's announcement last year, Fraser described DSP as a kind of interstellar Factorio —and sure, with the way you lay out planet-spanning conveyor belts and production pipelines, there's more than a passing resemblance to Wube Software's time-destroying sim. But for me, the image of a dinky robot running around gathering resources on spherical worlds instantly calls to mind Uber Entertainment's underappreciated RTS Planetary Annihilation .
What Is The Most Common Type Of Planet In The Universe?
There's a very common myth out there in astronomy: the idea that the Sun is just a typical star. This is true in the sense that there isn't anything special about our Sun compared to the other stars in the Universe, as it's made of the same ingredients as all the other stars. It's about 70% hydrogen and 28% helium, with about 1-2% "other" elements, and it derives its energy from nuclear fusion occurring in its core.
In the early days of exoplanet studies, the first planets beyond our Solar System didn't look like anything we had seen before. The first batch of these planets were found in the 1990s, and exclusively consisted of large, massive planets that dwarfed even Jupiter, the most massive planet in our Solar System. Moreover, they weren't far from their parent star like all of our gas giants were; they were extremely close in, taking just days to complete a full orbit.
How our planets were formed | Mirage News
Terrestrial planets versus gas and ice giants: A new theory explaining why the inner solar system is so different to the outer regions runs counter to the prevailing wisdom. The theory was proposed by an international research group with ETH Zurich’s participation.
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Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars in the inner solar system are relatively small, dry planets, unlike Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the outer regions, planets that contain much greater quantities of volatile elements.
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Mars and Uranus conjunction: How to see the planet's in the sky tonight | Science | News |
The relatively nearby Mars and the far out Uranus are adorning the night's sky, and are visible right now. Mars is the planet next out behind Earth in the solar system's pecking order, while Uranus is the seventh.
However, Uranus is a true giant of the solar system and can be spotted on a clear night when its orbit aligns with Earth's.
Uranus is a staggering 2.9 billion kilometres from the Sun and takes 84 years to complete an orbit of the star.
Spacey 'super puffs' are changing our understanding of how planets form | Popular Science
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance lands on the Red Planet in less than a month! | Space
The car-size Perseverance rover, the core of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission , will land Feb. 18, kicking off a new era of Red Planet exploration.
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If all goes according to plan, those samples will be hauled to Earth as early as 2031 by a joint NASA-European Space Agency campaign, in humanity's first-ever Mars sample-return effort.
So there's a lot to look forward to after Perseverance hits the red dirt. And the NASA rover isn't the only spacecraft set to arrive at Mars next month. The United Arab Emirates' first Red Planet mission, an orbiter named Hope, will reach Mars on Feb. 9, if all goes according to plan. That milestone will be followed a day later by the arrival of Tianwen-1 , China's first fully homegrown Red Planet effort.
There Are 300 Million Potentially Habitable Planets in the Milky Way, NASA Reports
According to new research using data from NASA’s retired planet-hunting mission, the Kepler space telescope, about half the stars similar in temperature to our Sun could have a rocky planet capable of supporting liquid water on its surface.
Our galaxy holds at least an estimated 300 million of these potentially habitable worlds, based on even the most conservative interpretation of the results in a new study to be published in The Astronomical Journal.
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