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End of an Era: Kepler's Retirement and TESS's Launch
The iconic Kepler Space Telescope has retired, but the quest for new worlds continues!✨ In this video, we dive into Kepler’s ...
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Sun-like stars produce ‘superflares’ about once a century
Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated that such events occurred only every 3000 to 6000 years. The result, from ...
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Webb observations discover new planet in Kepler-51 'super-puff' system
The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...
Stars Like Our Sun Explode With ‘Superflares’ Every 100 Years, Study Suggests
“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...
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A Third Of The Most Common Exoplanets May Host Life, Say Scientists
Published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new research by the University of Florida looks at data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers life supporting gases on a planet in space
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected an exoplanet, K2-18 b, which is larger than Earth and located in a habitable ...
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First 'exomoon' may have been found
The object was spotted in data from Nasa's Kepler spacecraft, and later observed using the Hubble telescope. Astronomers David Kipping and Alex Teachey have published their results in Science ...
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NASA discovered planet bigger than Earth with a gas that is 'only produced by life'
NASA have discovered a planet bigger than Earth accompanied by gas that is 'only produced by life' in what is an incredible ...