Tag: exoplanet
Mar 7th: Weirdly Habitable Places

Mar 7th: Weirdly Habitable Places

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We’ve always assumed that habitable planets would need to be like Earth; a terrestrial planet orbiting a sunlike star. But now astronomers have been discovering planets in the habitable zone around very much non-sunlike stars. What strange places could be habitable?

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Mar 7th: Weirdly Habitable Places

Dec 6th: Gas Giants

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For the longest time the only gas giant planets that we knew about were Jupiter and Saturn. But now, in the age of extrasolar planets, astronomers have discovered thousands of gas giants across almost as many star systems. What new discoveries have been made about gas giants, both here in the solar system and across the Milky Way

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