Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star
Astronomers have discovered a planet in orbit around one of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard's star.
Astronomers have discovered a planet in orbit around one of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard's star.
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2018
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The word "HAZMAT" describes substances that pose a risk to the environment, or even to life itself. Imagine the term being applied to entire planets, where violent flares from the host star may make worlds uninhabitable by ...
Astronomy
Oct 18, 2018
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New observations by two Arizona State University astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have caught a red dwarf star in a violent outburst, or superflare. The blast of radiation was more powerful than any such outburst ...
Astronomy
Oct 18, 2018
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The conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening up the possibility that water worlds could be habitable, according to a new paper from the University ...
Astronomy
Aug 31, 2018
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A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior structures of low mass stars in the ...
Astronomy
Jul 26, 2018
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To discover and confirm the presence of a planet around stars other than the sun, astronomers wait until it has completed three orbits. However, this very effective technique has its drawbacks since it cannot confirm the ...
Astronomy
Jul 17, 2018
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Last autumn, the world was excited by the discovery of an exoplanet called Ross 128 b, which is just 11 light years away from Earth. New work from a team led by Diogo Souto of Brazil's Observatório Nacional and including ...
Astronomy
Jul 10, 2018
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A new instrument to search for potentially habitable/inhabited planets has started operation at the Subaru Telescope. This instrument, IRD (InfraRed Doppler), will look for habitable planets around red dwarf stars. Astronomers ...
Astronomy
Jul 2, 2018
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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets the same size as the Earth.
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2018
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A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal by Hector Socas-Navarro, a researcher at the IAC, examines the possibility of detecting hypothetical artificial satellites orbiting around other worlds.
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2018
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