Artist’s impression of exocomets orbiting the star ß Pictoris. Credit: © ESO/L. Calçada For the past thirty years, astronomers have been fascinated with the star…
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Artist concept of TESS observing an M dwarf star with orbiting planets. : NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center A team of astronomers have made the…
Artist’s conception of the 30 Ari star system. The system is composed of four stars. Credit: Art by Karen Teramura, UH IfA NASAEstablished in 1958,…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…
A gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star, which is similar to TOI-2180 b. Credit: NASA A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…
This illustration depicts a Jupiter-like exoplanet called TOI-2180 b. It was discovered in data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt Tom Jacobs…
Artist’s concept of a dark and mysterious object. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESSLaunched on April 18, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
An illustration of a red dwarf star orbited by an exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet,…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
Artist’s rendition of the Kepler-47 circumbinary planet system with its three planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi…
An artist’s impression example of a white dwarf – in this image the white dwarf MV Lyrae – accreting as it draws in material from…
About 2,000 light-years away from Earth, there is a star catapulting toward the edge of the Milky WayThe Milky Way is the galaxy that contains…
Red giant stars near and far sweep across the sky in this illustration. Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite have identified more than 158,000…
Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting…
This illustration depicts a planet partially hidden in the glare of its host star and a nearby companion star. After examining a number of binary…
Out of This World Discovery by Citizen Scientists: Two Gaseous Planets Around a Bright Sun-Like Star
Out of This World Discovery by Citizen Scientists: Two Gaseous Planets Around a Bright Sun-Like Star
In this artist’s rendering, two gaseous planets orbit the bright star HD 152843. These planets were discovered through the citizen science project Planet Hunters TESS,…
Artist’s impression of the surface of Gliese 486b. Credit: enderArea A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation is an astronomer’s dream. A newly discovered…
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water high in…