News tagged with parent star
A faraway planet intrigues: Exoplanet with extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two teams of astronomers have found a planet outside the solar system that might be orbiting backwards compared to its star's rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the ...
The discovery of new Earths is imminent, UD astronomer says
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harry Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, told the audience for his lecture, “Seeking New Planets,” on Saturday evening, Sept. 26, ...
Twin Keck telescopes probe dual dust disks
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star. If placed in our own solar system, ...
Mass Loss Leaves Close-In Exoplanets Exposed to the Core
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. The team found that planets ...
London students find Jupiter-sized oddball planet
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from University College London (UCL), including undergraduate students, have discovered that an exotic world passes directly in front of the Sun-like star it orbits, ...
HARPS-NEF to comb Kepler targets for new Earths
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Astronomers have announced plans to build an ultra-stable, high-precision spectrograph for the Science and Technology Facilities Council's 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT - part of the Isaac Newton Group ...
Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Astronomers have observed the intense heating of a distant planet as it swung close to its parent star, providing important clues to the atmospheric properties of the planet. The observations enabled astronomers ...
COROT discovery stirs exoplanet classification rethink
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity ...
