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6 days ago · An international team using robotic telescopes around the world recently spotted an Earth-sized planet orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf, the dimmest and longest-lived of stars. When the universe grows cold and dark, these will be the last stars burning. The Discovery.
2 days ago · Visible planets in the May morning sky. In May 2024, look for this trio of planets in the morning sky. Mercury lies low in the morning twilight with Mars and Saturn lined up across the sky dome...
3 days ago · May 18, 2024. Squeezed by Neighbors, Planet Glows With Molten Lava. May 9, 2024 — Astrophysicists discovered that an exoplanet is covered with so many active volcanoes that seen from a distance...
2 days ago · This list includes systems with at least three confirmed planets or two confirmed planets where additional candidates have been proposed. The stars with the most confirmed planets are the Sun (the Solar System's star) and Kepler-90 , with 8 confirmed planets each, followed by TRAPPIST-1 with 7 planets.
1 day ago · Stellarium Web is a planetarium running in your web browser. It shows a realistic star map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
5 days ago · Solar system, assemblage consisting of the Sun and those bodies orbiting it: 8 planets with about 210 known planetary satellites; many asteroids, some with their own satellites; comets and other icy bodies; and vast reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium.
