exoplanetology
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Last Gasp: A Dying NASA Telescope Spotted Three Exoplanets in Its Final Days
Five years since the Kepler Space Telescope was retired, a team of astronomers believe they’ve found exoplanets captured by some of the veteran observatory’s last light.
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This Star Ate Its Own Planet
Astronomers think they’re the first to see a star swallowing a planet, after piecing together a cosmic whodunnit in data collected by several telescopes.
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‘Oumuamua’s Bizarre Acceleration May Have Been Caused by Hydrogen, Not Alien Technology
In October 2017, astronomers detected an interstellar object travelling through our solar system for the first time. Theories abounded as to the nature of the oblong object, named ‘Oumuamua, which accelerated as it made its transit. Now, a team of researchers suggests a straightforward explanation: The interstellar interloper was a comet that was releasing hydrogen…
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Astronomers Discover Two Invisible Stars Spinning Around Each Other at Breakneck Speed
Researchers have found an extreme binary system that features two dwarf stars that are so cool, they don’t emit visible light. And they’re so close together that they take less than one Earth day to orbit around each other.