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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
Webb telescope's images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO₂ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
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An incredible new animation shows where, when, and how astronomers found 4,000 planets beyond our solar system
The main method used to find each world is shown as one of seven colors. For example ... search on a small patch of the sky and used the transit method of exoplanet detection on 150,000 stars.
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An exoplanet bonanza and hopes of extraterrestrial life
Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.
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Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets ... thumb in front of the sun when you look at the sky,” Balmer said. This setting, similar to a solar ...