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Two Nobel Prize Winners Were the First Ones to Find an Exoplanet

Back in 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of a planet that’s orbiting a distant star in the Pegasus constellation. The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Michel Mayor…

October 11, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Habitable Exoplanet That Humans Can Colonize Found By Astronomers

Should we pack our stuff? Astronomers found a new exoplanet that can support human life. Are you scared of nuclear and chemical warfare, terrorists, rapists, murderers, wild animals, politicians, or mothers-in-law? Do you hate Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Beiber, and Donald…

August 29, 2019 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

Astronomers Surveyed The Atmosphere Of A Midsize Exoplanet

A team of researchers harnessed the power of two NASA telescopes to explore a midsize exoplanet which has a size between Earth and Neptune. Planets of this type are not present in our solar system, but they are quite common…

July 6, 2019 ·by Anna Daniels· 0

NASA’s TESS Discovers The Smallest Exoplanet Ever

A team of researchers harnessed the power of a sophisticated spacecraft in an attempt to find more extrasolar planets. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is an advanced spacecraft explicitly built for the search of exoplanets, and a new milestone has…

July 5, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s TESS Exoplanets Hunter Detected A New Sub-Neptune Gaseous Planet

In the vicinity of our Solar System, about 53 light years away from us, NASA’s TESS, the famous exoplanets hunter launched about three months ago, spotted a new, exciting planet. The distant world that TESS identified is a sub-Neptune exoplanet by…

January 15, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Exoplanet, Found By Spanish Scientists

Spanish scientists discovered an exoplanet of the so-called super-Earth type. It is by 2.1 times larger than the Earth and orbits its host star, a red dwarf, within the habitability zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone. According to the researchers, this…

January 9, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

Scientists Found A Super-Earth Exoplanet Orbiting Barnard’s Star, The Second-Closest One To Us

W have telescopes watching the skies, machines computing very complicated measurements, and hundreds of antennas listening to the whispers coming from space, but, above all, astronomy is a fascinating science, and a recent discovery proves that, once again. Researchers found a…

November 15, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

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