amazing exoplanet articles 2019

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  'Project Blue' Aims To Take The First Snapshot Of A Twin Earth

  Seeking a distant pale blue dot

  ... both, which would be an amazing discovery.”How It Will Work ... only project working to image exoplanets. NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Five questions about NASA's plans to visit an alien world in 2069

  Like, can we even do that?

  ... fair solar system—has a 2019 encounter planned with a mysterious ... ? What with all the far-flung exoplanets scientists keep discovering using various ...

  By Rachel Feltman
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  NASA's incredible exoplanet-hunting telescope is about to launch

  TESS will give us a new view of our galactic neighborhood.

  ... TESS—short for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. If all goes ... galaxy.How it works “Kepler was amazing, and Kepler's legacy is that ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  NASA found a bunch more potentially habitable planets

  But our days of massive exoplanet dumps may be numbered.

  ... constantly announcing a brand-spanking-new "Earth-like" exoplanet—some far-away world that might ... Earth. Kepler has done some amazing work in pushing planetary science ...

  By Rachel Feltman
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  Find Alien Planets That Could Support Life With This Amazing Chart

  Or just watch pretty planets swirl by

  ... Goldilocks.info The number of known exoplanets now numbers in the thousands. ... just look nice:The known exoplanets that cross their stars' habitable ...

  By Katie Peek
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  NASA's most anticipated new telescope just got delayed again

  The James Webb Space Telescope has an ever-expanding timeline—and projected cost.

  ... slipped again, landing around spring 2019. Today's announcement pushes us back ... upcoming space telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite TESS, is unaffected ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  This weekend's Blue Moon isn't the kind of Blue Moon you're used to (and also isn't blue)

  What is going on with my moon?

  ... these moons. “Catch This Weekend's AMAZING SUPERMOON,” one headline (or, like ... and last full supermoon of 2019, which didn't necessarily mean it ...

  By Rachel Feltman
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  Huge, Alien-Hunting Telescope Could Become Hubble's Successor

  Introducing the High-Definition Space Telescope

  ... detecting lots of Earth-sized exoplanets. While NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite might ... in the universe. The Outlook Amazing telescopes don't come cheap. AURA ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  Kepler and the Universe

  ... has found 4,696 candidate exoplanets, 1,031 of which have ... mission. The Kepler telescope is amazing, but so was it's namesake ...
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  Blame loose screws and 'excessive optimism' for the latest delay of NASA's new space telescope

  James Webb is now slated for a 2021 launch—only a bajillion years late.

  ... proposal to Congress in early 2019. When NASA announced the last ... Telescope. It's going to do amazing things—things we've never been ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  NASA's most prolific planet-hunting telescope is taking a nap

  But the end is fast approaching.

  ... next-generation planet hunter, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). TESS will pick ... mission is expected starting January 2019, and researchers will use techniques ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  The Best Views Of Mercury's Transit Across The Sun

  Throwing shade on Earth's telescopes

  ... 2006, and it was something amazing to see.Images of the event ... to determine the details of exoplanet atmospheres by watching the distant ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Cassini just smashed into Saturn's atmosphere. What comes next for solar system exploration?

  Europa, the outer solar system, and a lot of questions.

  ... our loss, and celebrate the amazing additions Cassini has made to ... explore Mercury's exosphere. January 1, 2019 New Horizons zooms by 2014 ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Weighing This Tiny Planet Could Help The Search For Alien Life

  This Mars-sized exoplanet is a big deal

  ... the most common type of exoplanets, but since they are much ... amazing. If scientists can study more of these Earth-size or smaller exoplanets ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  Pluto is way cooler than it should be, and now we might know why

  It has to do with a surprisingly hazy atmosphere.

  ... scientists expand their understanding of exoplanet atmospheres. But right now, an ... Webb Space Telescope launches in 2019. That observatory can detect infrared ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Q&A With 'The Pluto Doctor'

  New Horizons scientist Leslie Young discusses what to expect from the flyby on Tuesday, and the 28-year wait leading up to it

  ... that Charon is going to amaze us. All this time we've ... 1989. The two Voyagers were amazing spacecrafts that really opened up ...

  By Shannon Stirone
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  Kepler finally ran out of gas, but it will always fuel our planet-hunting ambitions

  It defied the odds to discover thousands of planets.

  ... we've seen thus far has amazed scientists across the globe. We ... brought to bear.Enter TESSNASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, led by ...
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  This star system could help us understand how baby planets grow up

  Scientists directly imaged two embryonic exoplanets 370 light-years away.

  ... , and we continue to be amazed by the unique circumstances in ... disk into two distinct segments.Most exoplanets are found by observing their ...

  By Neel V. Patel
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  Watch the James Webb Space Telescope go through nine months of testing in two minutes

  The spectacular scope launches in 2019.

  ... build. It won't launch until 2019 at the earliest, it's slowly ... will examine the atmospheres of exoplanets, and peer back in time ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Celebrate Earth day with tonight's amazing meteor shower

  The ancient Lyrid meteors have never failed to amaze us.

  One of the trustiest meteor showers will light up the night sky late on April 22 and in the wee morning hours of April 23rd. This is truly a happy Earth Day. The Lyrid meteors are famous for their speed and luminescence ...

  By Kaitlin Sullivan
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  No one really knows how to name exoplanets

  Naming new worlds is a confusing mess

  ... 34 different scientific designations.More recent exoplanet hunting projects have continued to ... singlehandedly discovered over 2,300 exoplanets, many orbiting stars too distant ...

  By Michael Koziol
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  We've spotted cloudy weather on a giant exoplanet

  And its clouds may be made of gemstones

  ... have detected weather on an exoplanet. Earlier this year, a different ... see a huge diversity of exoplanets—rocky ones, gaseous ones, hot ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  Earth 2.0: Where Are The Habitable Worlds Of 'Interstellar'?

  Don't pack your bags yet

  ... points in time, three different exoplanets orbiting the dwarf star Gliese ... most of the potentially habitable exoplanets so far have been spotted ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  For The First Time, Visible Light From An Exoplanet Detected

  Seeing is believing

  ... starlight reflecting off of an exoplanet's surface for the first time. ... used in conjunction with existing exoplanet measuring techniques to glean even ...

  By Loren Grush