World hunters find substantial super-Jupiter by viewing close-by star wobble
Beta Pictoris b isn't so lonely anymore. ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger For the last decade, astronomers on Earth have thought of Beta Pictoris b as a lonely exoplanet orbiting within a huge, dusty disk around the star Beta Pictoris. The planet, a super-Jupiter about 13 times as massive as our Jupiter, was the only known planet…
Planet hunters discovered a large Jupiter carving a path round a...
The detection method pioneered by the team was first used to detect planets around the young star, HD 163296. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Dagnello Hiding in the constellation Chamaeleon, around 603 light-years away, a well-known young star dubbed HD 97048 is surrounded by a huge disk of gas and dust, forming giant rings and gaps around the…
Planet hunters simply noticed a brand new super-Earth that might assist...
An illustration of GJ 357 d, a newly-discovered planet that may harbor life. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith NASA's exoplanet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has made a number of monumental discoveries, spotting new worlds at an impressive rate. And with the first TESS science conference taking place at MIT this week,…
See Typhoon Michael storm hunters fly directly into its eye
Hamilton fans know the lyric: "In the eye of a hurricane, there is quiet/for just a moment." US Air Force Reserve Pilot Will Simmons experienced that quiet Wednesday morning, and it's just as eerie as in Alexander Hamilton's day. Simmons was flying a USAF Hurricane Hunter mission out of Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi,…
