A Tale of Four Worlds: Hubble’s Ten-Year Hunt for Secrets in the Outer Solar System
NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...
ALMA observes dusty site of planet formation
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a ...
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'Tragedy of the commons' in space: We need to act now to prevent an orbital debris crisis, scientists say
"We have to get serious about this and recognize that, unless we do something, we are in imminent danger of making a whole ...
Surprise Planet Discovery Shakes Up Kepler-51’s “Super-Puff” Family
New research reveals a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, altering our understanding of this unique system with three ...
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Nearly a Third of All Stars May Contain The Remains of Planets Like Earth
Some of these co-natal stars have pronounced differences in their metallicity. New research shows that stars engulfing rocky planets are responsible. Co-natal stars are born in the same giant ...
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Famous Star Hasn’t Formed Planets, and We Don’t Know Why
The more than 5,500 planets now known beyond our solar system are found around a variety of stars, from dim ones known as red dwarfs to much brighter ones such as Vega. “These days we are used ...
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A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way to “see” the planet’s atmosphere from this entangled light.