Tag Exoplanets - results: 78
Astronomers first saw the birth of the planets near young star
it is always a nice little escape from everyday worries and think about something in everyday life you almost do not face (if you are an astronomer, of course) – we are talking about the formation of planets in the vastness of the...
Scientists have found evidence that our planet does not exist
After Pluto was officially no longer considered a planet officially in the Solar system has only 8 planets — mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars , Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. However, a few years ago, astronomers reported the strang...
Students have found 17 new planets. Some of them are similar to Earth
a student of the astronomical Department of the University of British Columbia Michelle Kunimoto opened 17 new exoplanets, including potentially habitable planet the size of Earth, according to the portal . After studying the data...
#video | In the zone of Goldilocks discovered exoplanet is earth-like
Before you TOI 700d — an earth-type planet where you can be Life on our planet arose due to the conjunction of many factors, one of which is the location of the Earth in the Solar system. To keep the water on the planet was...
Toxic substances can indicate the presence of life on extrasolar planets
View on one of the exoplanets and moons in the representation of the artist Phosphine — one of the most unpleasant smelling and poisonous gases on Earth, which can be found in the dirtiest places on the planet: in the manure...
Scientists will travel to another planet. It will last 1000 years
— our only home, but it will not last forever an Outstanding astronomer called our only home the pale blue dot and talked about the necessity of careful attitude toward it. The world is facing a lot more threats than in the...
The new station, NASA will be able to find details of exoplanet atmospheres
a New NASA mission aims to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets last week, NASA announced that it will participate in the mission of the European space Agency, scheduled for launch in 2028. The spacecraft, called ARIEL, is ...
How to look for exoplanets orbiting cool stars?
Landscape exoplanets an artist's concept of One of the most common objects in the Universe are stars — red dwarfs or M stars. Despite its color, red dwarfs emit red and yellow light, the intensity of which sometimes 10,000 t...
Found a new way to search for extraterrestrial life
Visible . Frame from a recent video NASA We live on a huge ball. It rotates around its axis and around the giant hot star, which is located inside the galaxy, located somewhere in the Universe, close to a trillion of the same . Wi...
How aliens would see our Earth
When astronomers on Earth used their telescopes to search for potentially habitable exoplanets, they get a series of different shots. Thanks to the advanced hardware of the telescopes, researchers can find out a huge amount of dat...
The amazing properties of hurricanes on other planets
In the early twentieth century the famous writer Edgar Burroughs could only dream of space travel. Thanks to his insatiable thirst for space and what it involves, the writer created a series of novels devoted to the subject . But ...
Scientists found the new planet very similar to Earth and it can be a life
last Spring, space Agency NASA with rocket company SpaceX launched a new . The objective of the unit is to search for potentially suitable planets outside the Solar system (these planets are called exoplanets), similar in its char...
Study 300 stars showed that our Solar system is special
Over the past four years, the instrument attached to the telescope in the Chilean Andes, the Gemini Planet Imager was staring at 531 star in search of new planets. And here is the team who worked with him, published in Astronomica...
In a nearby system detected the two most similar to Earth exoplanets
Astronomers from the Institute of astrophysics at the University of göttingen (Germany), working with the telescope CARMENES Spanish Observatory Kalar Alto, announced the opening of the near star Teegarden in the constellation of ...
The Kepler telescope helped to find another exoplanets suitable for life
Successful search for new planets can do not only professional scientists, but also ordinary users of the Network. This was proved by visitors to the online forum Zooniverse, which helped the students-the students of NASA to detec...
Scientists told about the new type of planets similar to the eyeball
— it is truly an amazing place. Astronomers have discovered already that the number of unique celestial bodies, which never dreamed of any science fiction. Exoplanets, super-earths, hot Jupiters, mini-Neptune and so on. But...
Astronomers have discovered a planet that is evaporating at a record rate
In space there is one very exotic class of exoplanets. Scientists call them "hot Neptune". They are so rare that among 3869 confirmed worlds had been discovered only a few such planets. However, their rarity may be able to explain...
Exoplanet is evaporating. And in the cosmic sense very quickly!
the Exoplanet almost 100 light-years from Earth disappears. And very fast by cosmic standards, are sounding the alarm astronomers. Using the space telescope "Hubble", they were able to detect GJ 3470b – exoplanet medium in size, a...
Announced launch date of "hunter of exoplanets" Cheops
In recent years the humanity is searching for exoplanets, and for several years the European Space Agency () led the development of the Cheops space telescope designed to find planets similar to ours. Cheops also called the "hunte...
10 strange objects that may exist in space
We are unlikely ever to explore the entire space. The universe is too big. Therefore, in most cases we have only to guess about what is happening there. On the other hand, we can refer to our physical laws and represent the cosmic...