Study reveals new NASA telescope could find over 1,000 planets
Science | February 26, 2019 23:33 ISTThe telescope will scan a small piece of the universe - about two square degrees - at a resolution higher than any similar mission in the past.
The telescope will scan a small piece of the universe - about two square degrees - at a resolution higher than any similar mission in the past.
The new planet named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light years away in the constellation Reticulum.
Flight controllers in Maryland declared success 10 hours after the high-risk, middle-of-the-night encounter at the mysterious body known as Ultima Thule on the frozen fringes of our solar system, an astounding 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto.
The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery on Monday.
“Farout” is about 120 astronomical units away — that’s 120 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, or 11 billion miles.
The planet, known as Barnard's Star b, is the second nearest to Earth outside the solar system and orbits its host star once every 233 days.
"This would be the first case of detecting a moon outside our solar system," said David Kipping, an assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University.
The scientific community has largely assumed that planets covered in a deep ocean would not support the cycling of minerals and gases that keeps the climate stable on Earth, and thus would not be friendly to life.
The latest discovery is a result of a five year project called the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
Scientists have discovered the first known permanent immigrant to the solar system – an asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter’s orbit, that migrated from another star system.
The general prevailing theory is that our solar system was formed billions of years ago near a supernova. However, the latest study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, begins with a giant type of star called a Wolf-Rayet star.
Ross 128 b is currently 11 light-years from Earth. The planet is moving towards us and is expected to become our nearest stellar neighbour in just 79,000 years.
An unexpectedly strong solar storm hit Mars this month, sparking a global aurora and doubling radiation levels on the red planet, Nasa scientists say
Florence will be the largest Near-Earth Object (NEO) to whiz past the planet since NASA began tracking them some 20 years ago
Older stars emit lesser flares than the younger ones thus facilitating living beings’ existence.
Scientists have claimed that our closest neighbour Moon is 4.51 billion years old, and was born just 60 million years after the solar system first formed. The revelation has come through a new study
Indian scientists have called for careful observations to detect gravitational waves as many fast spinning dense neutron stars generate gravitational waves continuously. Neutron stars are the densest observable objects in the universe, with a fistful
Scientists have discovered a new world right round the corner from Earth. A new ‘super Earth’ planet was found with a mass around 5.4 times that of the Earth, orbiting a very bright star near
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre ‘alien’ solar system that has planets orbiting its star so tightly that one of them has a year as along as a day on planet Earth.
Washington DC: If there had been just tiny evolutionary changes, life could have been existed on Venus and not Earth, a new study has claimed. According to a a hypothesis by Rice University scientists, these
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