Gas giant
Hubble Maps Distant Hot Exoplanet
| Marc Maligalig | | Oct 10, 2014 03:53 PM EDT |
A team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder used BASA's Hubble Space Telescope to create the most detailed global map of a planet twice the size of Jupiter, hot enough to melt steel and 260 light-years away.
New Planet Forms 355 Light Years from Earth
| Marc Maligalig | | Sep 05, 2014 05:41 AM EDT |
This prospective planet is the second one that researchers have observed orbiting the star.
Grad Student Discovers a Way to Detect Earth-eating Stars
| Robert Sarkanen | | May 22, 2014 09:16 AM EDT |
A grad student of astronomy at Vanderbilt University developed a model to find stars that swallow planets. This may explain how planets are formed and help find other Earth-like planets outside of our solar system.
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