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Astronomers Discover a ‘Newborn’ World, the Youngest Known Transiting ExoplanetIn a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...
A doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found by far the youngest known exoplanet using the so-called transit method. The celestial body with the designation IRAS ...
The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.
From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s protoplanetary disk.
Scientists have discovered a nearby exoplanet that is just a baby by planetary standards, located 520 light-years away.
An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, ...
Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.
Ishan Mishra, working in the laboratory of Nikole Lewis, associate professor of astronomy, wrote computer code modeling First ...
How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers led ...
The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this is now different. A doctoral student at the University of North ...
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