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Planet Discovered Orbiting a Star Speeding Out of the Galaxy at 1.2 Million MPH
Spotted thanks to a fleeting light distortion in 2011, a mysterious duo — a tiny star and its hefty companion — has turned ...
The Coldest Planet Ever Seen Is Circling a Stellar Corpse
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...
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Giant Planet Was Just Caught Falling Into Its Star and It Changes What We Thought About Planetary Death
It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.
Planet with comet-like tail observed disintegrating near its star
Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...
Disk discovery changes views on star and planet formation
A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...
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What would it be like living on Tatooine from 'Star Wars'? This exoplanet orbiting twin suns could tell us
A Tatooine-like world with a key difference from the desert planet in "Star Wars" has been serendipitously discovered orbiting not two stars, but a pair of brown dwarfs. What's more, this wacky ...
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NASA 'Autopsy' Reveals Plot Twist in Case of Planet Killed by Star
NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet—and, in classic crime thriller style, there has been a plot twist. Instead of the star ...
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Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star
WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its ...