Exoplanets

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Planets
Astronomers Just Found a Planet They Didn’t Know Was Possible
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Warm and Unusual The easiest way to make sense of the various unfamiliar objects we find floating around in the cosmos is by thinking about them in …
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Magnetism
Exactly how we would send our first laser-powered probe to Alpha Centauri
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He is also the founder of Project Genesis, a proposal to send laser sail-driven spacecraft equipped with gene factories or cryogenic pods to other …
Planets
Introduction | Life and Death of a Planetary System – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
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Life and Death of a Planetary System by Elizabeth Landau How did we get here? How do stars and planets come into being? What happens during a star's …
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Space
Exoplanet newly discovered is losing its atmosphere at an incredible rate
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Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet that is of a very rare variety called a “hot Neptune.” The new exoplanet is dubbed Gliese 3470b, and the …
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Science
New Space Telescopes Race For A New View Of The Cosmos
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28 years ago, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery gently raised the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST, up from the shuttle bay, and released it …
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NASA's Hubble telescope discovered an 'evaporating' planet, study says
USA TODAY - Brett Molina
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble telescope found an exoplanet that's evaporating, possibly holding clues into the discovery of rocky "super-Earths." Researchers at the University of Geneva Switzerland the
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Planets
You're Looking at an Actual Image of a White Dwarf Feeding on Material from a Larger Red Giant, 650 Light Years from Earth.
universetoday.com - by Evan Gough
The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding on its …
Comets
See a Passing Comet This Sunday
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On Sunday, Dec. 16, the comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest comet flybys of Earth in 70 years, and you may even be able to …
Planets
Our Neighboring Sun May Actually Not Have Any Habitable Planets
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Redefining the Habitable Zone When Proxima b was discovered last year, it was deemed a potentially habitable planet. What made scientists much more …
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Was Thanos' Doomed Home World From Avengers Ever Really Habitable? Earther Investigates
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The first teaser trailer for Avengers: Endgame dropped last week, featuring a universe devoid of 50 percent of all living things thanks to Thanos’ …
Planets
Where did the hot Neptunes go? A shrinking planet holds the answer
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Astronomers from the UNIGE explain the rarity of the hot Neptunes by their evaporation which transforms them into super-Earths "But where did the hot …
Planets
NASA is planning four of the largest space telescopes ever. But which one will fly?
sciencemag.org - Daniel Clery
For NASA astronomers, this was not a good year. In June, a review board found that the agency's prized observatory—the already overdue and vastly …
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Space telescopes
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HabEx would look for signs of life light-years away. Although thousands of exoplanets have been discovered indirectly, only a few large ones have …
Planetary Habitability
Alien Planets Revealed
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Are we alone—and if not, what might the inhabitants of far-flung worlds look like? Transcript Alien Planets Revealed PBS Airdate: January 8, …
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KCR: A mascot of Telangana pride with national ambitions
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Ek aur dhakka, Telangana pucca," was K Chandrashekhar Rao's slogan once. Simply known as KCR, the leader of India's newest state has come a long way. …
Near-Infrared
Kane et al. 2018: Climate modeling of a potential ExoVenus
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Publication Abstracts Kane et al. 2018 Kane, S.R., A.Y. Ceja, M.J. Way, and E.V. Quintana, 2018: Climate modeling of a potential ExoVenus. Astrophys. …
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Extraterrestrial Life
What will extraterrestrial life look like?
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Will we ever discover extraterrestrial life, and, if so, what form will it take? Six experts give their best guess. 1: Brian Cox: purple slime Cox …
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Planetary Habitability
Tiny Stars, Habitable Worlds: Planet Hunters Chase A Cosmic Connection
Forbes - Bill Retherford
Granted, the M83 galaxy is gorgeous. But the picture is just a prelude, a test image taken by the new planet-hunting SPECULOOS telescopes. The four instruments—activated, calibrated, evaluated—now await
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Dancing with the Enemy
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eso1840 — Photo Release ESO’s R Aquarii Week continues with the sharpest R Aquarii image ever While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE …
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2019 will be an extraordinary year in space. Here's what NASA, SpaceX, and the night sky have in store for planet Earth.
SFGate - Dave Mosher
SpaceX When it comes to events in space, 2019 is going to be an extraordinary year. That's not to say 2018 will be an easy act to follow. After all, SpaceX debuted the world's most powerful operational
Space Travel
Space Station Racer (by Georg Schwab)
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Origami
Origami-inspired spacecraft will someday unfurl in space
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Origami and Starshade To get more spacecraft into the smallest possible launch package, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have …
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UFOs
Ufologists Say 8-Foot Humanoid Aliens From Proxima B Have Visited Earth
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In 2012, a strange image started circling around the internet showing what seems to be an extraterrestrial being in Asia. And while scientists were …
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Habitats
There's a 'Subterranean Galapagos' Deep Inside the Earth
VICE - Becky Ferreira
“A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited.” There is a vast biosphere deep underground that is nearly twice as big as Earth’s oceans and contains some billion
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Planets
Scientists Release Incredible Image of a Four Planet System
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Located about 129 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Pegasus constellation is the relatively young star system of HR 8799. Beginning in …
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Proxima Centauri
NASA Astrobiology
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In 2016, the La Silla Observatory in Chile spotted evidence of possibly the most eagerly anticipated exoplanet in the Galaxy. It was a world orbiting …
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Planets
Aerospace, JPL Develop Concept to View Distant Planets
parabolicarc.com - Doug Messier
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 19, 2018 – In a new development in the search for potentially habitable planets far beyond our solar system, JPL and …
Radio Astronomy
Samantha Rolfe
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I am a Principle Technical Officer and Lecturer in Astrobiology at the University of Hertfordshire. During the months of October to March I am often …
Paranormal
Massive underground ecosystem could help us find alien life
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Hidden Life We knew life existed below Earth’s surface. We just didn’t know how much life — until now. The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) is a community …
Plate Tectonics
The Tectonic Activity of Earth May Be the Key To Supporting Life
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Searching For Tectonic Plates Tectonic plates — which divide Earth’s crust and reshape our planet in an ongoing, dynamic process — may be the key to …