#NASA’s TESS found 3 exoplanets orbiting a young sun-like star

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“#NASA’s TESS found 3 exoplanets orbiting a young sun-like star” Roughly 400 light years from Earth, a young star named TOI 451 travels within a river of stars. An international team of astronomers has now found three previously unknown exoplanets orbiting that star. The Pisces-Eridanus stream of stars was only recently discovered — at the…

#The 7 planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are identical — here’s what we can learn from them

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“#The 7 planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are identical — here’s what we can learn from them” Just 40 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST-1 system of planets is home to the largest family of Earth-like worlds known to astronomers. At least seven planets are known to orbit within the TRAPPIST-1 solar system. A new study…

#There’s a bunch of undiscovered exoplanets left – math can help us find them

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“#There’s a bunch of undiscovered exoplanets left – math can help us find them” Only 12 light years from Earth, Tau Ceti is the closest single star similar to the Sun and an all-time favorite in sci-fi stories. Habitable worlds orbiting Tau Ceti were destinations of fictional starships like “The Expanse”‘s Nauvoo and “Barbarella”’s vessel….

#Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’

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“#Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’” When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers found a world that could resemble the long-sought Planet X. For the first time, astronomers are able to view a massive Jupiter-like world orbiting far from its parent star….

#Jupiter’s moon Europa glows in the dark — and that may tell us what’s on it

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“#Jupiter’s moon Europa glows in the dark — and that may tell us what’s on it” Laboratory experiments have re-created the surface of Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter, with a surprising result — Europa glows in the dark. While we typically see the side of Europa facing Earth, this new study…

#24 planets that are warmer, wetter, and better for life than Earth

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“#24 planets that are warmer, wetter, and better for life than Earth” Where to look? Where to look? An artist’s concept of the first terrestrial planet found by the Kepler observatory orbiting in the habitable zone around its star, where temperatures are “just right” for liquid water — and perhaps, life — to form. Image…