Infrared measurements of TRAPPIST-1 c indicate that it is probably not as Venus-like as once imagined.
Planetary Sciences
Jun 19, 2023
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The discovery of a rare type of white dwarf star system provides new understanding into stellar evolution.
Astronomy
Jun 15, 2023
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Astronomers have revealed that the smallest and most common kinds of stars in the universe, called red dwarfs, very rarely host big, Jupiter-like planets. This absence of Jupiter analogs could have major impacts on the development ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 1, 2023
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GJ 486 b is about 30% larger than the Earth and three times as massive, which means it is a rocky world with stronger gravity than Earth. It orbits a red dwarf star in just under 1.5 Earth days. It is too close to its star ...
Planetary Sciences
May 1, 2023
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In the search for life elsewhere in the universe, scientists have traditionally looked for planets with liquid water at their surface. But, rather than flowing as oceans and rivers, much of a planet's water can be locked ...
Astronomy
Mar 15, 2023
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In the vast and diverse universe, the initial mass distribution at the birth of a new population of stars determines the fate of galaxies. This relationship is described by the initial mass function (IMF). For more than half ...
Astronomy
Jan 18, 2023
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star. These observations represent the first time the previously known disk has been imaged at these infrared ...
Astronomy
Jan 11, 2023
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An international scientific team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered the presence of two planets with Earth-like masses in orbit around the star GJ 1002, a red dwarf not far ...
Astronomy
Dec 15, 2022
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A gas giant exoplanet with the density of a marshmallow has been detected in orbit around a cool red dwarf star by a suite of instruments, including the NEID radial-velocity instrument on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at Kitt ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2022
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The first exoplanet has been discovered by Subaru Strategic Program using the infrared spectrograph IRD on the Subaru Telescope (IRD-SSP). This planet, Ross 508b, is a super-Earth with about four times the mass of the Earth ...
Astronomy
Aug 1, 2022
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