Astronomers just discovered a treasure trove of "rogue planets" — free-floating planets that don't orbit a star but exist all by their lonesome in the depths of space.
Located within the Scorpius and Ophiuchus constellations, the planets were spotted using a suite of telescopes on both the ground and in space. Typically, rogue planets are difficult to image because they aren't close to any stars to make them visible.
Astronomers discover dozens of rogue planets - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Astronomers using Maunakea observatories have discovered at least 70 planets within our galaxy that do not orbit a star.
A team of astronomers from the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux in France and the University of Vienna, in Austria, used data collected from several telescopes around the world, including two on Maunakea, to locate the rogue planets throughout the Milky Way.
Atmospheres of Small Planets Through a Big Telescope | astrobites
Title: Detecting Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of Gas Dwarf Planets with the James Webb Space Telescope
Authors: Caprice Phillips, Ji Wang, Sarah Kendrew, Thomas P. Greene, Renyu Hu, Jeff Valenti, Wendy R. Panero, Joseph Schulze
… because the latest “Great Observatory” is set to be launched into space this week! The space telescope known as JWST has become infamous amongst space professionals for long and frequent delays in its deployment since its conception in 1996 .
The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News | Four Planets
Four of the visible planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, will appear together in the southwestern skies a short time after sunset.
We've been watching Venus, the brightest of them all for weeks. Jupiter is the second brightest and appears above and to the left of Venus. Look in between Venus and Jupiter for the bright planet Saturn.
Lost In Space: Rocky Planets Formed From Missing Solar System Material – YubaNet
Rocky planets may have formed by two fundamentally different processes, but it is unclear which one built the terrestrial planets of our solar system.
In the new research, the team showed that the isotopic compositions of Earth and Mars predominantly result from the accretion of planetary bodies from the inner solar system, including material from the innermost disk unsampled by meteorites, with only a few percentages of a planet's mass coming
Skywatch: Planets, eclipses, and meteor showers in the New Year | Outdoors | magicvalley.com
Venus, the blazing "Evening Star," is poised to pass between the sun and earth, vanishing from view after Christmas, and becoming the "Morning Star" by mid-January.
Jupiter (currently in the south after sunset) has a twelve year orbit, so each year it slips about one zodiac sign to the east. That means it will be lost in the sun's glare about a month later than it was the previous year.
Strange New Worlds: The Weirdest Planets Discovered in Our Universe - IGN
Scientists have been exploring the evolution of our universe for decades, trying to gain a better understanding of the cosmic phenomenon exhibited by the celestial bodies that occupy space.
With thousands of confirmed exoplanets and discoveries growing rapidly, it's safe to say the universe's planet portfolio is packed with some weird and wonderful entries.
Towards a Classification Scheme for the Rocky Planets based on Equilibrium Thermodynamic
Free energy as a function of the order parameter driven only by astronomical, geophysical and internal dynamics expressed in terms of the variable η = (A, G, I). The Earth-like Holocene stability is associated with the phase hψi = 0, for which η > 0.
Three major equilibrium states can be identified and the associated planetary states or phases are: Earth-like Holocene state; hot Venus-like state; cold Mars-like state.
Why Superman's People Didn't Colonize Planets Beyond Krypton
Depictions of Superman's homeworld of Krypton have varied wildly over the years, and in one version, Kryptonians were kept from colonizing the rest of the galaxy thanks to a genetic alteration made to the species by a being called the Eradicato r , a being who would go on to a play a
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A team of astronomers discovered at least 70 rogue planets in the Milky Way, marking the largest group of rogue pla… https://t.co/0a1yPv7aBz inversedotcom (from New York, NY) Thu Dec 23 17:24:20 +0000 2021
Planet CFBDSIR2149 was the first rogue planet discovery, and its proximity helped astronomers learn more about thes… https://t.co/tC0QP5Fr4P inversedotcom (from New York, NY) Thu Dec 23 17:28:31 +0000 2021
This is amazing: Astronomers find up to *170* rogue planets in a nearby star-forming nebula! Yes, actual starless… https://t.co/u5SdmdQHmL BadAstronomer (from Boulder) Wed Dec 22 16:33:23 +0000 2021
Astronomers were surprised in 2002 to find a spiral galaxy with giant radio-emitting jets, a feature usually found… https://t.co/W1PdqIWMKS HubbleTelescope Fri Dec 24 15:00:23 +0000 2021
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