We need to rethink how we name exoplanetsFed up with dull names for exoplanets, Alan Stern and his company Uwingu have asked the public for help. Will it be so long 2M 0746+20b, hello Madonna?doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(13)60421-2Craft...
How do we find exoplanets?Since planets are close to much brighter stars, how do we actually find them?Some planets are found by a technique that uses Einstein’s theory of general relativity, observing the bending effect of gravity from a hidden planet as it warps the light around its ...
dense leftover core from a once-giant star. That pulsar would regularly splash a beam of radiation over Earth, like the blinking of a distant lighthouse — hence the namepulsar. As the exoplanets orbited around that dead core, they would gently tug on the pulsar, making it wiggle, which ...
The Cool Worlds Lab researches exoplanets that are cool enough to support life. Hence the name. But I knew immediately that I had to make a joke playing off the difference between cool-as-in-temperature and cool-as-in-hip-and-fashionable. The problem is I am a middle-aged librarian. I ...