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Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume. These worlds, located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are unlike any planets
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Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars -- so-called hot Jupiters -- boast the most extreme.
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Why Uranus and Neptune are different
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 5 (ANI): According to Researchers at the University of Zurich, the two outermost giant planets of the solar system, Uranus and Neptune, have similar masses but are strikingly different.
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Giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously th
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 23 (ANI): New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests that giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought.
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