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Rocky planet discovered around one of the galaxy's oldest stars | University of Hawaiʻi System
Almost all of the planets discovered to date (including the solar system planets) are confined to the plane of the Milky Way, and are unable to glimpse a sweeping vista of our galaxy. However, astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy ( IfA ) using telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have discovered a rocky planet with a different kind of view.
The planet orbits the star TESS Object of Interest ( TOI ) 561, named for the ongoing NASA TESS planet hunting mission. TOI -561 belongs to a rare population of stars called the galactic thick disk. Thick disk stars are chemically distinct, with fewer trace heavy elements (and especially less iron) than typical stars of the Milky Way, suggesting they formed early, approximately 10 billion years ago.
Astronomers measure enormous planet lurking far from its star | News
Scientists aren't usually able to measure the size of gigantic planets, like Jupiter or Saturn, which are far from the stars they orbit. But a UC Riverside-led team has done it.
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The planet is roughly five times heavier than Jupiter, hence its nickname GOT 'EM-1b, which stands for Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass. Though it is nearly 1,300 light years away from Earth, GOT 'EM-1b, or Kepler-1514b as it is officially known, is still considered part of what researchers call our "solar neighborhood."
An Earth-like planet might orbit our closest single sun-like star | New Scientist
A star like our sun just 12 light years away might host a rocky world in its habitable zone where conditions allow for liquid water.
Jeremy Dietrich and Dániel Apai at the University of Arizona devised an algorithm called DYNAMITE to predict the existence of planets around a given star based on data from planets already known to orbit it.
They applied this algorithm to a star called Tau Ceti, which is the closest single sun-like star to …
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A Symphony for 7 Moons | The Planetary Society
Composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg has created The Moons Symphony . You'll hear excerpts from each of its 7 movements. They are inspired by and evoke 7 of our solar system's smaller, unique worlds. Joining Amanda are her advisors and friends, artist and International Space Station astronaut Nicole Stott and Cassini mission project scientist Linda Spilker. Bruce Betts arrives with a new space trivia question based on a visitor to one of these moons.
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Imagine if the Huygens probe had landed on Earth at the same latitude and longitude at which it landed on Titan. It would have come down in an ocean. Name one of the islands or island groups closest to its splashdown.
Striped or Spotted? Planetary Scientists Solve a Brown Dwarf Mystery
Planetary scientists wondered if bands of winds or swirling storms dominated the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. University of Arizona-led research has solved the mystery.
A University of Arizona-led research team has found bands and stripes on the brown dwarf closest to Earth, hinting at the processes churning the brown dwarf’s atmosphere from within.
“We wondered, do brown dwarfs look like Jupiter, with its regular belts and bands shaped by large, parallel, longitudinal jets, or will they be dominated by an ever-changing pattern of gigantic storms known as vortices like those found on Jupiter’s poles?” said UArizona researcher Daniel Apai, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory and the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
It's really there! Kepler space telescope's 2nd-ever exoplanet candidate finally confirmed.
Astronomers just confirmed the existence of KOI-5Ab, which was first flagged as a potential planet by NASA's pioneering Kepler space telescope way back in 2009.
The elusive alien world was the second "candidate" ever identified by Kepler, which hunted for planets on two different missions from 2009 through 2018 . Kepler used the "transit method," spotting the telltale brightness dips caused when alien worlds crossed their host stars' faces from the spacecraft's perspective.
'Super Earth': NASA discovers 10B year-old planet unlike any other in deep space | Fox
A number of planets described as Super-Earths have been discovered in recent memory, but researchers have recently spotted one unlike any other found to date.
The planet, known as TOI-561 b, orbits the TOI-561 star system, according to a study published in The Astronomical Journal . It's approximately 50% larger than Earth , but takes half the time to orbit its star given the close proximity between the two.
"The rocky planet orbiting TOI-561 is one of the oldest rocky planets yet discovered," said the study's lead author, Lauren Weiss, in a statement . "Its existence shows that the universe has been forming rocky planets almost since its inception 14 billion years ago."
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