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Surprising number of exoplanets could host life, study reveals
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], August 1 (ANI): Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. According to a new study, other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the absence of a gas giant like Jupiter.
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Five planets can be seen with naked eyes before sunrise on Sunday
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 19 (ANI): A unique opportunity will be available to all just before the sunrise on July 19, it is the chance to see as many as five planets, along with the crescent moon, with the naked eye, according to astronomer RC Kapoor.
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Young giant planet offers clues to formation of exotic worlds
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [USA], June 23 (ANI): A new study in the Astronomical Journal reports on the detection of the exoplanet HIP 67522 b, which appears to be the youngest hot Jupiter ever found.
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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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Jupiter's moon Europa: New evidence of watery plumes
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], May 13 (ANI): A group of scientists, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have found new evidence of the presence of a plume of water near Jupiter's moon Europa.
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Astronomers find Jupiter-like cloud bands on closest brown dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 6 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered that the closest known brown dwarf, Luhman 16A, shows signs of cloud bands similar to those seen on Jupiter and Saturn.
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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive enough to become a star. To achieve the finding, they used a new method that
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Researchers reveal findings after peering into atmosphere of hottest plane
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): After peering into the scalding atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter planet, researchers have reported the findings in a new study. In the study led by Jake Turner of Cornell University, a team of scientists digs deep into the transmission spectrum for th
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NASA: Data from Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mystery
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 7 (ANI): The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants -- Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune -- are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of
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NASA scientists spot water in Jupiter's atmosphere
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): NASA astronomers have recently revealed that our neighbourhood gas-giant, Jupiter, contains water in its atmosphere, albeit in a fractional amount.
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Findings from NASA's Juno update Jupiter water mystery
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 19 (ANI): NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the equator, water makes up about 0.25 per cent of the molecul
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European Space Agency launches satellite to observe exoplanets around the
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], December 18 (ANI): The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a new satellite aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that will orbit around the Earth.
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