Astronomer tells Wikinews about discovery of closest...Friday, May 22, 2020
Artistic impression showing the orbits of the triplet of the HR 6819 system. The red trajectory is of the black hole. The two stars are located in the Telescopium constellation and visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. (Image: ESO/L. Calçada)
A study published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics last month reported...
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Scientists find ancient solar system in Milky Way ga...They said the system dates roughly to the formation of the Milky Way galaxy. They found the planets orbiting around Kepler-444, about 117 light years from Earth. Researchers investigated Kepler-444 with NASA's Kepler telescope using a method called asteroseismology.
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Gassy exoplanet has Earth-like massA newly discovered planet was announced by scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, documented as "a gassy planet with an Earth-like mass".
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Astronomer Anthony Boccaletti discusses observation ...Tuesday, July 7, 2020
In March, a study conducted by astronomer Anthony Boccaletti and other researchers reported potential signs of formation of an exoplanet around the star AB Aurigae. Exoplanets are those planets which are outside the Solar System.
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