Statistically Confirming an Earth-Like Planet? Not So Fast!
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Posted on April 6, 2018
Title: Kepler’s Earth-like Planets Should Not Be Confirmed Without Independent Detection: The Case of Kepler-452b
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Earth-like-exoplanets, exoplanets, Kepler, KOI, statistics, Transit-method, transiting-planets, transits
Imaged Companion Drives Spiral Arms in Disk
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Posted on February 27, 2018
Title: The Orbit of the Companion to HD 100453A: Binary-Driven Spiral Arms in a Protoplanetary Disk
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astrometry, binary-stars, computer-simulations, numerical-simulations, observations, planet-formation, protoplanetary-disks, radio-astronomy, simulations, star-formation
New Directly Imaged Planet Challenges Planet Formation Theories
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Posted on January 18, 2018
Title: Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP 65426
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planets, direct-imaging, exoplanets, planet-formation, planetary-migration
What proof do you have that planets are made from gas and dust?
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Posted on February 29, 2016
Artist's conception of a very young star encircled by a disk of gas and dust, the raw materials from which rocky planets such as Earth are thought to form. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, Source.
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planets
Is there a way to provide a magnetic field for Mars?
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Posted on November 20, 2015
Artist's rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and the planet's upper atmosphere. Credit: NASA/GSFC, Source.
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planets
