exoplanet
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See 17 Years of an Exoplanet’s Orbit in One Captivating GIF
Beta Pictoris b is a young exoplanet about 12 times as massive as Jupiter, with an orbit nearly twice as long. Now, a timelapse video of the planet’s nearly 23-year orbit lets you see most of that journey in just ten seconds. Jason Wang, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, has led an effort to condense…
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Habitable Worlds May Lurk in the Sooty In-Betweens of Star Systems
A team of astronomers has proposed peering into the inconspicuous region between host stars and their soot lines to find habitable worlds beyond our solar system.
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Watch Four Planets Spin Around a Star 130 Million Light-Years Away
Astronomical phenomena tend to occur over timespans that dwarf our human scale — a galaxy changes over millions and billions of years, not decades. But a new timelapse of observations of a distant star system shows its clockwork motion over just 12 years, packed into only a few seconds.
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Planet With the ‘Density of a Marshmallow’ Spotted Around Red Dwarf Star
Space has no shortage of weird and curious planets. Astronomers using the 3.5-metre telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory report their discovery of a Jupiter-like world with roughly the same density as a marshmallow, rapidly orbiting a red dwarf star.