CNNflipped into FeaturedPlanetary Habitability Observations of our closest neighboring star dampen hopes of a potentially habitable planet verified_publisherCNN - By Katie Hunt(CNN) — One of the planets that orbits around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, had been thought to exist within what astronomers call the habitable zone. While Proxima b is 20 times closer...
IanClarkflipped into XFiles & ConspiraciesExoplanets First-ever direct image of two giant planets orbiting Sun-like star verified_publishernewatlas.com - By Michael Irving Although astronomers have detected more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system, most of them appear as points of data or dips in light charts. …
Steve Alsopflipped into Wired&WonderfulExoplanets Scientists just took an actual picture of a planet in another star system verified_publisherfuturism.com Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, a team of astronomers say they’ve managed to confirm the existence of an exoplanet — by taking an …
CNETflipped into Living in the FutureSolar System In a first, astronomers detect giant planet orbiting a dead star verified_publisherCNET - Jackson Ryan The white dwarf, WD 1856, provides a snapshot of the fate that awaits our own solar system.
AvatarDylan O'Dailyflipped into Milky Way and BeyondLoneliness Wandering planets could outnumber the stars in our galaxy verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina Torbet In the depths of space, in the vast expanses between stellar systems, there float lonely planets which have no star to orbit around. These isolated …
SYFY WIREflipped into SYFY WIREHabitable Zone How many habitable planets can one star have? Turns out, about 6. verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Phil Plait How many habitable planets can you have orbiting a single star? In our solar system, only one planet is actually habitable in a narrow sense of the …
™flipped into AwesomeSolar System This Is The First Image Of Planets Circling A Star Like Our Sun Forbes - Elizabeth HowellCan you imagine what our giant solar system planets look like from far, far away? This picture gives a tantalizing hint. What you see here is an image of a solar system about 300 light-years from us, TYC...
eddieflipped into Eddies PicksSolar System Rogue Planet Spotted Floating Through Galaxy Without A Host Star comicbook.com - Adam Barnhardt Somewhere out there in the midst of the Milky Way is an Earth-sized planet, floating aimlessly through space. The "rogue planet" belongs to no solar …
Bret Ellisflipped into SpaceUniverse Astronomers just spotted a planet floating freely in space without a star bgr.com - Mike Wehner We think of our solar system as typical, or even “normal,” but in the universe, there’s really no such thing as normal. So many circumstances exist …
Futurismflipped into FuturismUniverse An Earth-sized planet is floating around without a star verified_publisherfuturism.com Astronomers have spotted something strange and oddly sad: a rogue planet floating freely, without a star. It’s an example of what astronomers call a …
Inverseflipped into Science & ChillExoplanets Stars may zap the life off their planets — study Inverse - Passant Rabie The first exoplanet was discovered more than 20 years ago, and scientists are on the hunt for more of these strange worlds. For many, the quest is …
Muhammad Syamsuddinflipped into Issues In The UniverseExoplanets Astronomers Capture the First Ever Photo of Two Planets Orbiting a Sun-Like Star petapixel.com - DL Cade The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) has captured a world’s first: the first ever image of two giant exoplanets …
Bobby Munsterflipped into Science DailyFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoGalaxies Rogue planets could outnumber the stars phys.org - Laura Arenschield An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets—planets that float in space without orbiting a sun—than there are stars in the …
Forbesflipped into InnovationSolar System 7 Bright Planets And Stars You Can See At Dusk That Will Give You Cosmic Calm After The Chaos Forbes - Jamie CarterIt’s been a week of anxiety, of “doomscrolling” and/or “gleefreshing.” Surely everyone needs a break from politics. So go for an “awe walk” at dusk and let the cosmos calm you down. Defined by some as...
AvatarSimcha Freshbizflipped into The New EntrepreneurzScience We’ve seen a planet being born while its star is still forming newscientist.com - Jason Arunn Murugesu In an astronomical first, we may have directly observed a star forming at the same time as a world that orbits it, proving a long-held theory about …
Auroraflipped into AstronomyTelescopes Astronomers Discover First Known Planet to Orbit a White Dwarf Star verified_publisherGizmodo - George Dvorsky The unprecedented discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet in orbit around a white dwarf star suggests it’s possible for planets to survive the tumultuous …
Daily Mailflipped into Top StoriesSolar System Astronomers capture photo of two planets orbiting a Sun-like star dailymail.co.uk - Ryan Morrison The first ever photo of two planets orbiting a Sun-like star 309-light years from the Earth has been captured by astronomers using a ground-based …
SlashGearflipped into SlashGear Science and HealthScience Scientists say some stars could potentially host seven Earth-like planets slashgear.com - Shane McGlaun A research team from the University of California, Riverside, including astrobiologist Stephen Kane, has been crunching the data and found evidence …
JBflipped into Space UnitesExoplanets This Is the First Image of Planets Orbiting a Sun-Like Star in Deep Space verified_publisherVICE - Becky FerreiraAn international team of astronomers snapped this photo of a young star and its two gigantic planets from a distance of 300 light years. “TYC 8998-760-1 is the first directly imaged multiplanet system...
AKTflipped into PhotographyExoplanets First Pic Ever of Two Planets Orbiting a Star Like Our Sun Captured by the ESO verified_publisherlightstalking.com - By Kehl Bayern The European Space Observatory’s appropriately named Very Large Telescope has made history with the first picture of two gas giants orbiting a star …
