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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 ...
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NASA Found Another Super Earth With Tantalizing Possibilities
By November 2023, it had identified a total of 6,977 candidates ... being roughly 1.5 times the diameter of our planet. It orbits a red dwarf star, which is somewhat smaller than our yellow ...
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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Explosive red dwarf stars could harm chances for alien life on nearby planets
Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...
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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 ...