Hubble Spots Another Blue Planet
Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away. The planet is…
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Farthest Planet Forming From Its Star Seen by Hubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star, a finding that may challenge…
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Smallest Earth-Like Planets to Date Discovered by Kepler Space Telescope
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where…
Read the articleOnly the International Astronomical Union Is Allowed to Name Exoplanets!
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the official body that governs the designations of all celestial bodies — in their capacity of purveyors of all things…
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Kepler Mission Discovers Moon-Sized Planet Around Sun-Like Star
NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.…
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Alpha Centauri a Has Cool Layer Just Like the Sun
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star…
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Elderly Star Giving Birth to Planets
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding…
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Vega Seems to Have Its Own Asteroid Belt
This artist’s concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. Evidence for this warm ring of debris was found using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope,…
Read the articleRogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B Revealed by Hubble
Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut, and of a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic…
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Kepler Space Telescopes Finds 461 New Planet Candidates
This collage includes a compilation of artist’s concepts depicting milestones from the Kepler mission. Image credit: NASA Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel NASA’s Kepler mission Monday announced…
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