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First Brown Dwarf Candidates Discovered Beyond Our Galaxy, 200,000 Light-Years From Earth
If the object forms like a star – from a collapsing clump – it is a brown dwarf. Growing from smaller bits and accumulating gas? The object is a planet. These candidates have formed like stars ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...
Tiny Telescope, Big Discoveries: How ExTrA Hunts for Earth-Like Worlds
Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
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Earth-Like Planets Are 100 Times More Common Than We Thought, Say Scientists
Dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres are also suspected ... The likes of Enceladus and Europa are prime candidates for finding life in our solar system—and the world’s space agencies are already ...
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What Exactly Are Dwarf Planets And How Many Of Them Are There?
Nobody was using the term Dwarf Planet until 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had a vote to redefine what ...
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White dwarfs pause their cooling, giving planets a second chance for habitability
When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...