Researchers have discovered a new, exotic class of planets outside our solar system. These so-called super-Earths were formed at high temperatures close to their host star and contain high quantities …read more Source:: Science
Tag: Solar System
NASA learns more about interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua
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•The first known interstellar object to visit our solar system — named ‘Oumuamua — was detected in October 2017 by Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope. But it was too faint for …read more Source:: Science
Experiments trace interstellar dust back to solar system’s formation
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•Experiments have helped to confirm that samples of interplanetary particles — collected from Earth’s upper atmosphere and believed to originate from comets — contain dust leftover from the initial formation …read more Source:: Science
Citizen scientists discover five-planet system
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•In its search for exoplanets — planets outside of our solar system — NASA’s Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host planets. The …read more Source:: Science
Scientists describe how solar system could have formed in bubble around giant star
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•Scientists have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star. The study addresses a nagging cosmic …read more Source:: Science
Another close-by planetary system?
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•The ALMA Observatory in Chile has detected dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow coming from cold dust in a …read more Source:: Science
Small asteroid or comet ‘visits’ from beyond the solar system
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•A small, recently discovered asteroid — or perhaps a comet — appears to have originated from outside the solar system, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy. If so, it …read more Source:: Science
Cold brown dwarf discovered close to our solar system
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•A new citizen-science tool released earlier this year to help astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system has already led to a discovery: a …read more Source:: Science
Rocky planets may be habitable depending on their ‘air conditioning system’
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•The quest for potentially habitable planets is often interpreted as the search for an Earth twin. And yet, some rocky planets outside our Solar System may in fact be more …read more Source:: Science
Solar System formation don’t mean a thing without that spin
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•New work provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. …read more Source:: Science