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Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star's habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?
28 Jan 2025 18:22 GMT
… what's termed 'radial velocity' — the amount … exoplanet's faint radial velocity signal from the background … taught us that no planetary orbit is perfectly circular, most … worlds, however, have more elongated orbits. The degree of elongation, …
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February 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus, Jupiter, and Mars continue to dominate the sky, and the Moon occults the Pleiades
01 Feb 2025 07:10 GMT
… month. Jupiter has many satellite transits visible in small telescopes … the month as its orbital path carries it closer … interesting feature is a huge radial fracture emanating from its … as 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann orbit between Jupiter and Neptune, …
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A Super-Earth to Test the Limits of Habitability
31 Jan 2025 18:53 GMT
… HARPS is the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, and ESPRESSO … has been part of long radial velocity (RV) surveys dedicated … It follows an elliptical orbit with an eccentricity of 0 … interesting feature is its orbit. “The orbital period of HD 20794 …
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'Super-Earth' exoplanet discovered that could host life - but there's a problem
29 Jan 2025 16:05 GMT
… 20794 d has an elliptical orbitGabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)… recorded by the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) … because HD 20794 d’s orbit is elliptical rather than circular … about and given its peculiar orbit," he added. The …
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Exoplanet HD 20794 d in the habitable zone
29 Jan 2025 14:15 GMT
… a super-Earth planet orbiting a distant star that … an elliptical – egg-shaped – orbit.
This means the planet… by the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph … the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet.
An international team …
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Astronomy breakthrough as ‘Super-Earth’ discovered that’s candidate for alien life
29 Jan 2025 14:46 GMT
… known as HD 20794d, which orbits in the habitable zone of … than 5,800 exoplanets that orbit around stars beyond ours have … takes 90.3 days to orbit its star, and it is … recorded by the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (Harps) spectrograph …
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Astronomers Confirm Presence of Three Exoplanets around Nearby Solar-Type Star
29 Jan 2025 00:02 GMT
… 20794, around which HD 20794d orbits, is not an ordinary star … of following a relatively circular orbit, like the Earth or Mars … it (2 AU) along its orbit.”
“If there is water on … data from the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument …
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Breakthrough as NASA discovers planet 6 times as big as Earth that could be habitable
28 Jan 2025 20:22 GMT
… that of Earth's, orbits a star similar to our … by the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph at … 's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Dr Cretignier said scientists … about and given its peculiar orbit."
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‘Super-Earth’ discovered — and it’s a prime candidate for alien life
28 Jan 2025 18:21 GMT
… identified exoplanets — those in orbit around stars beyond our own … recorded by the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (Harps) … conditions in a highly eccentric orbit”.
“While my job mainly … about and given its peculiar orbit.”
The James Webb Space …
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'Super-Earth' found 20 light years away could be able to host life
28 Jan 2025 16:04 GMT
… our Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone … ;
However, because HD 20794 d orbits in an elliptical way, rather … recorded by the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher spectrograph at … about and given its peculiar orbit," he said.
The …