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ALMA Spots Possible Formation Site of Icy Giant Planet

TW Hydrae

Astronomers have found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

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NASA - Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars

Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars.

Two's company, but three might not always be a crowd -- at least in space. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and a trick of nature, have confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located 8,000 light-years away towards the center of our galaxy.

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Stellar Activity Can Mimic Misaligned Exoplanets

The occultation of stellar active regions during the planetary transit[1] can lead to inaccurate estimates of the characteristics of these exoplanets, especially the spin-orbit tilt angle.

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Twin Stars Hosting Three Giant Exoplanets

A team of Carnegie scientists has discovered three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar ''twins'' that are also effectively siblings of our Sun. One star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third.

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Solar Obliquity Induced by Planet Nine

The six-degree obliquity of the sun suggests that either an asymmetry was present in the solar system's formation environment, or an external torque has misaligned the angular momentum vectors of the sun and the planets.

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Extrasolar Planet HD 131399Ab Has Three Suns

If you thought Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine, was a strange world with its two suns in the sky, imagine this: a planet where you'd either experience constant daylight or enjoy triple sunrises and sunsets each day, depending on the seasons, which happen to last longer than human lifetimes.

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Kepler Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star

Astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected.

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VLT Obtains Image of Exoplanet Orbiting CVSO 30

Astronomers hunt for planets orbiting other stars (exoplanets) using a variety of methods.

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New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns

If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you'll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system.

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Kepler-223 System: Clues to Planetary Migration

The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system appeared to have little in common with the planets of our own solar system today.

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Potentially Habitable Planets Just 40 Light-Years Away

Is there life beyond our solar system? If there is, our best bet for finding it may lie in three nearby, Earth-like exoplanets.

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K2 Mission Searches For Distant Exoplanets

Astronomers have made great strides in discovering planets outside of our solar system, termed "exoplanets."

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Young, Unattached Jupiter Found in Solar Neighborhood

A team of astronomers from Carnegie and the University of Western Ontario has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects within relatively close proximity to the Sun.

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Planet Formation in Earth-like Orbit Around a Young Star

The disks of dust and gas that surround young stars are the formation sites of planets.

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Map of Rocky Exoplanet Reveals a Lava World

Astronomers have obtained the most detailed 'fingerprint' of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date, and found a planet of two halves: one that is almost completely molten, and the other which is almost completely solid.

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