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Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...
The “Rosetta Stone” of Alien Worlds: NASA’s Webb Unmasks a Super-Earth With a Scorching Atmosphere
A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...
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New Planet In Strange Perpendicular Orbit Around Binary Stars Is Straight Out Of Science Fiction
"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...
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“I Mapped the Invisible”: An American High School Student Turns Astronomy on Its Head with His AI That Reveals 1.5 Million Forgotten Space Object
A high school student in California has made a remarkable contribution to astronomy by developing an artificial intelligence ...