spectrometry
Sorry Spock, But “Vulcan” Isn’t a Planet After All
In 2018, astronomers detected an exoplanet around the star 40 Eridani. It's about 16 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.…
7 months ago
Webb Completes its First “Deep Field” With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?
About 13 billion years ago, the stars in the Universe's earliest galaxies sent photons out into space. Some of those…
2 years ago
Smaller, Ground-Based Telescopes can Study Exoplanet Atmospheres too
The next step to understanding exoplanets is to understand their atmospheres better. Astronomers can determine a planet's mass, density, and…
3 years ago
The DARKNESS Instrument Will Block Stars and Reveal Their Planets. 100 Million Times Fainter than the Star
An international team of scientists has developed the DARKNESS camera, which will allow astronomers to directly study planets around nearby…
7 years ago
We ‘Hype’ Alien World Findings Amid Little Data, Exoplanet Scientist Says
With exoplanet discoveries coming at us several times a month, finding these worlds is a hot field of research. Once…
11 years ago