Exoplanet Transits

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An exoplanet is seen as a tiny dotof light blue light next to a str that has been masked with a screen. Protruding from both sides are bright, yellow-orange jets. Those indicate the disk of debris.

Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images

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Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b.

Article5 months ago

Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List

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A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope:…

Article7 months ago

Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way…

Article7 months ago
A picture of the night sky in Skull Valley Utah from June 2021 shows the constellation Scorpius to the upper right of the silhouette of a desert butte. The dark blue sky is filled with countless bright stars. Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford

Help Discover Worlds With NASA

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NASA's Exoplanet Watch project invites you to use your smartphone or personal telescope to help track worlds outside our solar…

Article1 year ago
The m51 galaxy is seen as a spiral next to a realistic image of the first planet, or exoplanet, found beyond our Milky Way galaxy.

First Evidence of a Planet Identified Beyond Our Galaxy

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Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first…

Article3 years ago
Distant photo of Earth from space

Is Earth an Oddball?

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One of the strangest things in the cosmos might be – us. Among the thousands of planets confirmed to be…

Article5 years ago