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May 8, 2024 · The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere, wrapped a blanket of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide....
1 day ago · After he discovered Ariel and Umbriel in 1851, Lassell numbered the four real Uranian satellites then known outward from their parent planet as I (Ariel), II (Umbriel), III (Titania), and IV (Oberon), and this finally stuck.
5 days ago · Six of the planets in our solar system — Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are about to align on June 3 in what some media outlets are dubbing a "parade of planets." The sight...
May 8, 2024 · Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that a scorching hot lava planet, believed to be composed of diamond, grew a second atmosphere — and that was after its...
May 10, 2024 · 51 Pegasi b. extrasolar planet. planet. radial velocity. Didier Queloz (born February 23, 1966) is a Swiss astronomer who was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery with Swiss astronomer Michel Mayor of the first known extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun -like star.
May 12, 2024 · 55 Cancri e is a fiery world. Classified as a rocky "super-Earth", this exoplanet is twice the diameter of Earth, and orbits its star at a mere 4% of the distance between Mercury and the sun....
May 15, 2024 · "Typically, big planets are pretty easy to detect because they are usually massive and lead to a big pull on their star," team member Julien de Wit, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of...
