Goodbye to a beauty in the night sky
For over a century and a half, Eta Carinae has been one of the most luminous – and most enigmatic – stars of the southern Milky Way.
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Combination of space-based and ground-based telescopes reveals more than 100 exoplanets
An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets in only three months. These planets are quite diverse and are expected to play a ...
The power of the wobble: Finding exoplanets in the shifting of starlight
They say there's more than one way to skin an interstellar cat, and in astronomy there's more than one way to find alien exoplanets orbiting a distant star. With the recent shut-down of NASA's prolific Kepler mission and ...
Astronomers discover a near-grazing transiting 'hot Jupiter'
'Super-Earth' planet with very short orbital period discovered
VLT makes first detection of titanium oxide in an exoplanet
A team of astronomers led by Elyar Sedaghati, an ESO fellow and recent graduate of TU Berlin, has examined the atmosphere of the exoplanet [WASP-19b] in greater detail than ever before. This remarkable planet has about the ...
Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system (Update)
Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. They were detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Three of them lie in the habitable zone and ...
'Hot Jupiter' detected around nearby variable star
More than 1,000 new exoplanets discovered – but still no Earth twin
NASA astronomers working with data from the Kepler space observatory have presented the largest single crop of newly discovered exoplanets to date. It's impressive – 1,284 new planets have been announced, including around ...
What are the chances of life on another planet?
In an infinite universe, most scientists agree, the odds of life existing on a planet besides Earth are pretty high. It is unlikely, however, that familiar life forms will be found on any planet within our solar system. Life ...
