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Astronomy: Youngest passing exoplanet discovered in "strange" system
A doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found by far the youngest known exoplanet using the so-called transit method. The celestial body with the designation IRAS ...
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Astronomy: Youngest passing exoplanet discovered in "strange" system
The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this is now different. A doctoral student at the University of North ...
Astronomers catch a glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet
An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2 天
Astronomers Discover a ‘Newborn’ World, the Youngest Known Transiting Exoplanet
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...
Forbes1 年
A Third Of The Most Common Exoplanets May Host Life, Say Scientists
“This result is really important for the next decade of exoplanet research, because eyes are shifting toward this population of stars,” said astronomy doctoral student Sheila Sagear at the ...