The Prevalence of Hot Jupiters
When the Space Age began, astronomers knew of exactly zero planets outside the solar system. What a difference 50 years makes. Modern, ground-based telescopes and NASA’s…
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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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First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere Detected by Hubble and Swift Telescopes
An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet…
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step toward finding chemical…
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“We have mapped the temperature variations with longitude across the entire surface of a planet that is so far away, its light takes 60 years to…
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