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Sixty of those exoplanets were discovered with NASA's Kepler Space Telescope during its K2 mission, four of them were spotted by NASA'sTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite(TESS), and the last was confirmed using the Europea...
Sadly both of these exoplanets are too far away for the James Webb telescope to investigate. While we didn't find any exoplanets nearby in both the habitable and abiogenesis zones, we are discovering such worlds at breathtaking speed – with several thousands discovered already. So it may not ...
"Amongst the over 5,000 exoplanets discovered orbiting other stars than our Sun, resonances are not rare, nor are systems with several planets," said Hugh Osborn, one of the researchers based at the University of Bern in Switzerland, in a statement. "What is extremely rare, though, is to...
But "numbers are very forgettable," Mamajek said. "Stars are turning from pinpricks of light into destinations," as moreexoplanetsare discovered. So, proper names are becoming important. Arabic star names in a 15th-century copy of "The Book of the Fixed Stars" by Al-Sufi, originally writt...
One of the most surprising discoveries in the past couple decades is the existence of so-called "hot Jupiters," which are giant exoplanets that orbit way too close for comfort to their parent stars. In short, they shouldn't exist. Gas giant planets need a lot of gas to become giant (he...
Great skill was used, much data were achieved, but to no real point. Of course when he did the survey it was not clear what amplitude transiting exoplanets would show. I'm still not sure if an amateur has telescopically discovered an transiting exoplanet yet, I know they can detect them...
“The problems arising when interpreting the data from WASP-39b are well known from many other exoplanets – regardless whether they are observed with Kepler,TESS, James Webb, or the future PLATO spacecraft,” explains MPS scientist Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz, first author of the new study. “As...
Before we had discovered exoplanets, astronomers generally thought our solar system was rather typical. Sure, there would be differences, but the general arrangement of rocky worlds close to the Sun and cold gas giants in the outer system made sense. However when we studied planetary systems we ...
No star’s exoplanets have yet been proven to support life – the Sun is the only star so far to host life. There is only one solar system. The answer to question 4 is truly a trick question: “No other stars have a solar system… becauseonly one star is named “Sol”… the Sun...