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Unusual team finds gigantic planet hidden in plain sight Posted: 13 Jan 2022 04:41 PM PST An astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools. |
Newly-found planets on the edge of destruction Posted: 13 Jan 2022 12:14 PM PST Astronomers have found three Jupiter-like exoplanets that are dangerously close to being 'swallowed up' by their host stars. The discovery gives new insight into how planetary systems evolve over time, helping to reveal the fate of solar systems like our own. |
Posted: 13 Jan 2022 12:13 PM PST Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks that occurred on the Red Planet about 4 billion years ago, according to new analysis. |
New insights into seasons on a planet outside our solar system Posted: 13 Jan 2022 09:07 AM PST Imagine being in a place where the winds are so strong that they move at the speed of sound. That's just one aspect of the atmosphere on XO-3b, one of a class of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system), known as hot Jupiters. The eccentric orbit of the planet also leads to seasonal variations hundreds of times stronger than what we experience on Earth. |
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