The grainy image of a “super Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s observations ramp up. https://media.wired.com/photos/631b8ffb995b6da54b57eeb9/master/pass/Quanta_Lede_Ancient-Antiviral-System_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg
Tag: exoplanet
Space Photos of the Week: Meet TESS, the Exoplanet Hunter
NASA’s satellite takes on the exploratory work of the Kepler mission, which so far has discovered more than 2,000 planets orbiting other stars. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b0829f821ba7b4bdc6952da/master/pass/SPoW_May26_2018_02.jpg
Space hunter: Scientists pin alien exoplanet hopes to NASA’s latest sky scanner (VIDEO)
Mankind’s hunt for alien life and potentially habitable planets continues Monday, when a new rocket will push through the Earth’s atmosphere carrying precious NASA cargo. Instead of the regular care packages usually sent to NASA astronauts on the International Space Station, SpaceX hopes to fire an exoplanet satellite known as TESS into the great expanse. […]
The closest exoplanet to Earth just got doused with deadly flares
Enlarge / An artist’s impression of the view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. (credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Amid much excitement in 2016, astronomers revealed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet around Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our Sun. This exoplanet, just 4.2 light years from […]
NASA’s Latest Kepler Exoplanet Discovery Fueled by AI
Planet hunters didn’t just stumble onto Kepler-90i. The secret to their success: a neural network trained to identify exoplanets. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a32e6a7803e667ded658a77/master/pass/NASA-17-098-FINAL.jpg Feed: All Latest
It rains sunscreen on this ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet
Anyone who can conjure up a way to collect resources from Kepler-13Ab in the far future could become a sunscreen magnate. On the heavenly body, one of the hottest Jupiter-sized exoplanets the mission has ever discovered, titanium oxide falls from the skies. The planet is so close to its host star that, like our moon, […]
Hubble spots pitch-black exoplanet so hot it ‘eats light’ from nearby star
Scientists studying the exoplanet WASP-12b have made a startling discovery: the planet is so hot it reflects almost no light, making it appear pitch-black. An international team of astronomers from McGill University, Canada and the University of Exeter, UK measured how much light is reflected by the exoplanet, otherwise known as its ‘albedo,’ in order […]
‘Exoplanet hop’: NASA release epic travel poster to mark landmark discovery (PICTURES)
Published time: 23 Feb, 2017 14:40 NASA has released a stunning new ‘space tourism poster’ to mark the momentous discovery of seven exoplanets around the star TRAPPIST-1, sitting some 39 light-years from Earth. The space agency announced the discovery of the exoplanets – planets circling stars outside our solar system – at a press conference […]
Watch NASA’s big exoplanet announcement live at 1PM ET
At 1PM ET, NASA will be announcing a new exciting discovery about planets that orbit stars outside our Solar System. The space agency will have a number of panelists on hand for the announcement, including Sean Carey — the manager of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at Caltech — and Sara Seager — a notable expert […]
