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Scientists find extremely young exoplanet orbiting star with a wonky disk
The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.
Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say
Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...
How Ancient Collisions Explain Current Planetary Orbits
The migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune from closer to wider orbits around the sun occurred 60-100 million ...
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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
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Perseid meteor shower
For one orbital period of the Perseid particles, you have 10 revolutions of Jupiter and four of Saturn in the same time. The fact that these two planets’ orbital periods are whole number multipl ...
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Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
about five to seven times the mass of our planet, and its orbital period is between 10,000 and 20,000 years. “What I cannot calculate from doing simulations is where it is on its orbit ...
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Green Sahara: African Humid Periods Paced by Earth's Orbital Changes
All three of orbital cycles — called Milankovitch ... Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 307, 103-112 (2011).