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Astronomers measure the air of a super-Earth exoplanet

Astronomers measure the air of a super-Earth exoplanet

JWST takes the temperature and “tastes” the air of a distant world

Astronomers find an exoplanet with a year that keeps changing length

Astronomers find an exoplanet with a year that keeps changing length

Also: a million Moon craters, and Voyager 1 gets an attitude adjustment

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JWST watches a planet leak its atmosphere into space. Plus you need to watch “12 Monkeys”
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JWST watches a planet leak its atmosphere into space. Plus you need to watch “12 Monkeys”

The planet’s air is puffed up and flying away. Also, the “12 Monkeys” TV series is excellent time travel scifi

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
Planets forming, squeezed until they melt, and in a binary system
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Planets forming, squeezed until they melt, and in a binary system

A bit of a hodgepodge of exoplanetary news today

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Another weird planetary system has been found

Another weird planetary system has been found

A binary star may have planets orbiting both stars

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
Hot Jupiters may not be as lonely as we first thought
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Hot Jupiters may not be as lonely as we first thought

Massive planets scorched by their host stars don’t necessarily destroy their solar systems

BAN #258: Slow Trololo, Mind the super-Earth gap

BAN #258: Slow Trololo, Mind the super-Earth gap

01 October 2020 Issue #258

BAN #186: Name a Mars rover, gravitational darkening
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BAN #186: Name a Mars rover, gravitational darkening

23 January 2020 Issue #186

An exoplanet that’s twice as dense as Earth, and a fresh impact crater on Mars

An exoplanet that’s twice as dense as Earth, and a fresh impact crater on Mars

The planet K2-360b is likely metal, and the crater image is too.

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
An alien planet where the wind will kill you

An alien planet where the wind will kill you

The wind on the planet WASP-127b is very, VERY supersonic. Also, correcting an error in the last issue

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
Brown dwarfs: How do they form, and how far away can we see them?

Brown dwarfs: How do they form, and how far away can we see them?

These cool celestial objects are still mysterious in many ways, but we’re really starting to figure them out.

BAN #118: Blobby space, a new exoplanet finding technique, and quite a stretch
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BAN #118: Blobby space, a new exoplanet finding technique, and quite a stretch

May 30, 2019 Issue #118

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