The universe is teeming with exoplanets , based on our current (very limited) ability to detect them. Instruments like the brand new James Webb Space Telescope might help us spot more, but maybe we’ve been looking in the wrong place.
The new analysis, led by Feng Long of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, focused on a young star called LkCa 15 sitting 518 light-years away in the Taurus constellation. LkCa 15 is notable because it has a protoplanetary disk that shows evidence of early planetary formation.
Astronomers find a sun-like star orbiting a nearby black hole
The research was led by Kareem El-Badry, a Harvard Society Fellow astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA).
For the sake of this study, El-Badry and his colleagues relied on data obtained by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia Observatory.
NASA Mars inSight lander captures strikes on planet's surface by 4 meteoroids
A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids striking the planet's surface.
Scientists reported Monday that Mars InSight detected seismic and acoustic waves from a series of impacts in 2020 and 2021. A satellite orbiting the red planet confirmed the impact locations, as far as 180 miles from the lander.
Alien worlds could be discovered by hunting for debris orbiting them
When it comes to searching for newly born planets that are tens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of light years away, we don't often get too lucky.
Planets are formed in thick clouds of dust and gas known as protoplanetary disks that swirl around a star . As such, it's very difficult to observe young planets directly through all the debris.
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