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NASA's James Webb Telescope Discovers Giant Exoplanet Twice As Massive As Jupiter
The discovery happened while the team was using the telescope's NIRSpec, or Near-Infrared Spectrograph, to study the atmosphere of Beta Pictoris b.
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Scientists Find Evidence Suggesting Atmosphere On Habitable "Super-Earth"
Astronomers have discovered more than 6,200 exoplanets since the first ones were found in the 1990s.
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Scientists Discover Atmosphere Around Earth-Like Planet That Could Support Water
Atmospheres have already been detected around gas giant exoplanets and sub-Neptunes.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Giant Planet Hidden In Nearby Star System
A separate study led by Ben Sutlieff of the University of Edinburgh and Markus Bonse of the European Southern Observatory supported the findings.
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NASA's Satellite Finds Rare Super-Jupiter Orbiting Far from Its Host Star
The mission identified a planet orbiting a distant star using ripples in space-time, instead of its usual planet-hunting method.
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Could Life Exist Here? Scientists Discover Potentially Habitable Earth-Like Exoplanet
It orbits a nearby red dwarf star within the star's habitable, or 'Goldilocks', zone - the region where temperatures are considered just right for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface.
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What Makes A Star A Star?
Stars start out as huge blobs of gas in space - but how big and heavy does a blob of gas have to be before it becomes a star? It sounds like a simple question, but astronomers have debated the answer for decades.
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JWST Reveals Salt Clouds in the Atmosphere of the ‘Pink Planet’ GJ 504b
Using just two hours of observations, JWST decoded the atmosphere of GJ 504b, a cool pink world 57 light-years away. Scientists detected water vapor, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide, while deep salt clouds helped explain the object's unusual appearance and temperature.
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JWST Watches HD 80606 bExoplanet Heat Up by 1,100 Degrees in Hours
The James Webb Space Telescope observed HD 80606 b undergo a dramatic temperature surge during its closest approach to its star. The data revealed extreme heating and detected methane and carbon dioxide, offering a rare look at how giant exoplanet atmospheres respond to intense stellar energy.
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Scientists Discover Giant Planet Formation Around Supermassive Black Holes
New research suggests that supermassive black holes may host the formation of giant planets within their surrounding dusty disks.
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NASA Just Released One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Night Sky Ever
NASA’s TESS mission has created its most complete map of the night sky using eight years of observations. The mosaic includes nearly 6,000 known and candidate exoplanets and highlights the mission’s growing role in discovering distant worlds.
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NASA Shares Detailed Space Map Highlighting Nearly 6,000 Exoplanets
NASA said the TESS mission studies large sections of the sky, known as sectors, for about a month at a time using four onboard cameras.
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New Study Suggests Uranus and Neptune May Contain More Rock Than Ice
New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may contain significantly more rock than ice beneath their atmospheres. The findings challenge decades of planetary science and could lead to a reclassification of the outer planets.
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NASA's Webb Telescope Captures Clearest Picture Yet Of Exoplanet Surface
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gathered data on a rocky exoplanet with a diameter about 30% larger than Earth - called LHS 3844 b, or Kua'kua.
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Astronomers Discover 27 Potential "Tatooine-Like" Planets Orbiting Two Stars
The potential planets were detected using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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NASA's James Webb Telescope Discovers Giant Exoplanet Twice As Massive As Jupiter
The discovery happened while the team was using the telescope's NIRSpec, or Near-Infrared Spectrograph, to study the atmosphere of Beta Pictoris b.
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Scientists Find Evidence Suggesting Atmosphere On Habitable "Super-Earth"
Astronomers have discovered more than 6,200 exoplanets since the first ones were found in the 1990s.
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Scientists Discover Atmosphere Around Earth-Like Planet That Could Support Water
Atmospheres have already been detected around gas giant exoplanets and sub-Neptunes.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Giant Planet Hidden In Nearby Star System
A separate study led by Ben Sutlieff of the University of Edinburgh and Markus Bonse of the European Southern Observatory supported the findings.
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NASA's Satellite Finds Rare Super-Jupiter Orbiting Far from Its Host Star
The mission identified a planet orbiting a distant star using ripples in space-time, instead of its usual planet-hunting method.
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Could Life Exist Here? Scientists Discover Potentially Habitable Earth-Like Exoplanet
It orbits a nearby red dwarf star within the star's habitable, or 'Goldilocks', zone - the region where temperatures are considered just right for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface.
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What Makes A Star A Star?
Stars start out as huge blobs of gas in space - but how big and heavy does a blob of gas have to be before it becomes a star? It sounds like a simple question, but astronomers have debated the answer for decades.
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JWST Reveals Salt Clouds in the Atmosphere of the ‘Pink Planet’ GJ 504b
Using just two hours of observations, JWST decoded the atmosphere of GJ 504b, a cool pink world 57 light-years away. Scientists detected water vapor, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide, while deep salt clouds helped explain the object's unusual appearance and temperature.
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JWST Watches HD 80606 bExoplanet Heat Up by 1,100 Degrees in Hours
The James Webb Space Telescope observed HD 80606 b undergo a dramatic temperature surge during its closest approach to its star. The data revealed extreme heating and detected methane and carbon dioxide, offering a rare look at how giant exoplanet atmospheres respond to intense stellar energy.
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Scientists Discover Giant Planet Formation Around Supermassive Black Holes
New research suggests that supermassive black holes may host the formation of giant planets within their surrounding dusty disks.
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NASA Just Released One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Night Sky Ever
NASA’s TESS mission has created its most complete map of the night sky using eight years of observations. The mosaic includes nearly 6,000 known and candidate exoplanets and highlights the mission’s growing role in discovering distant worlds.
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NASA Shares Detailed Space Map Highlighting Nearly 6,000 Exoplanets
NASA said the TESS mission studies large sections of the sky, known as sectors, for about a month at a time using four onboard cameras.
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New Study Suggests Uranus and Neptune May Contain More Rock Than Ice
New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may contain significantly more rock than ice beneath their atmospheres. The findings challenge decades of planetary science and could lead to a reclassification of the outer planets.
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NASA's Webb Telescope Captures Clearest Picture Yet Of Exoplanet Surface
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gathered data on a rocky exoplanet with a diameter about 30% larger than Earth - called LHS 3844 b, or Kua'kua.
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Astronomers Discover 27 Potential "Tatooine-Like" Planets Orbiting Two Stars
The potential planets were detected using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
