Astronomers Track a Runaway Star and Its Planet Traveling at Hyperspeed
The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...
High-resolution observations shed more light on a peculiar brown dwarf system
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...
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This hot Jupiter probably formed close to its star
The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...
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'Roasting marshmallow' exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?
WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...