Brown dwarfs fill the ‘gap’ between stars and the much smaller planets. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers may now be able to answer that …read more Source:: Science
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Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
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•A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star …read more Source:: Science
What does the Milky Way weigh? Hubble and Gaia investigate
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•We can’t put the whole Milky Way on a scale, but astronomers have been able to come up with one of the most accurate measurements yet of our galaxy’s mass, …read more Source:: Science
The case of the over-tilting exoplanets
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•For almost a decade, astronomers have tried to explain why so many pairs of planets outside our solar system have an odd configuration — their orbits seem to have been …read more Source:: Science
Missing-link in planet evolution found
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•For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the Solar System. Kilometer sized bodies like the one discovered have been predicted …read more Source:: Science
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’
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•The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesized by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers map ‘light echoes’ of newly discovered black hole
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•A team of astronomers has charted the environment surrounding a relatively small, ‘stellar mass’ black hole that is 10 times the mass of the sun. The observations provide the clearest …read more Source:: Science
Faint starlight in Hubble images reveals distribution of dark matter
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•Astronomers have employed a revolutionary method to detect dark matter in galaxy clusters. The method allows astronomers to ‘see’ the distribution of dark matter more accurately than any other method …read more Source:: Science
Most-distant solar system object ever observed
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•A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our solar system. It is the first known solar system object that has been detected at a distance …read more Source:: Science
Where did the hot Neptunes go? A shrinking planet holds the answer
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•‘Where did the hot Neptunes go?’ This is the question astronomers have been asking for a long time, faced with the mysterious absence of planets the size of Neptune. Researchers …read more Source:: Science