weird exoplanet articles 2019

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  space

  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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  space

  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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  space

  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

  Some Exoplanets May Get Squashed By Gravity From Stars

  The latest addition to the exoplanet freakshow

  There are a lot of weird worlds out there. Astronomers have ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  This Could Be The Strangest Exoplanet Found Yet

  Giant planet orbits three stars at once

  ... among the first batch of exoplanets discovered with direct imaging. Usually ... it becomes some kind of weird outlier that isn't representative of ...

  By Ryan F. Mandelbaum
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  space

  A whopping seven Earth-size planets were just found orbiting a nearby star

  Three of them may be habitable

  ... Mercury." Gravity could be doing weird things to the planets in ... solar flares could irradiate nearby exoplanets—burning off their atmospheres, eliminating ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  Life On Earth May Have Arisen Unusually Early

  Now we wait for the rest of the cosmos to catch up

  ... stars," James Kasting, geoscientist and exoplanet researcher at Penn State, told ... to figure out just how weird earthlings really are. If red ...

  By Ryan F. Mandelbaum
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  space

  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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  space

  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?

  ... and last full supermoon of 2019, which didn't necessarily mean it ... , which is kind of a weird thing to claim given that ...

  By Rachel Feltman
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  space

  NASA wants the internet to get hype about these new exoplanets

  You can basically read fanfiction about them

  ... got sent out with new exoplanet discoveries? The artistic interpretations based ... life forms and some very weird weather patterns—but for now ...

  By Rachel Feltman
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  space

  If Planet Nine Exists, We Might Have Stolen It

  Where can I find a planet like that?

  ... published it yet. Of course, weird things happen all the time ...

  By Ryan F. Mandelbaum
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  space

  Sorry, but Anonymous has no evidence that NASA has found alien life

  We wish.

  ... in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. We're starting to be able ... inexplicable dimming behavior started acting weird again in May, and the ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  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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  space

  Have We Detected Megastructures Built By Aliens Around A Distant Star?

  Or just a cloud of comets? Scientists want to investigate further

  ... darken, which would indicate an exoplanet passing in front of it. ... days. What could cause the weird light fluctuations? The researchers who ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  Here's the weird alphabet soup that scientists use to name stuff in space

  I is for interstellar.

  ... by on New Year's Day 2019. Suggestions so far include nuts ... U Here's where it really weird again. Each object discovered in ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  Interstellar visitor doesn't appear to be an alien ship, does appear to be covered in organic gunk

  With an icy heart.

  ... That doesn't mean it's not weird. And we still don't know ... (hopefully to be launched in 2019) and other large observatories will ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  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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  space

  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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  space

  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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  space

  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
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  space

  A frozen super-Earth is just six light years away

  It's close, but you won't want to visit.

  ... technique for tracking and identifying exoplanets close to our neighborhood. In ... astronomers report finding a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the second ...

  By Neel V. Patel
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  space

  Nearby 'Venus Twin' Could Be Clue To Finding Inhabited Planets

  So close we might even be able to measure its wind speeds, GJ 1132b is a very important exoplanet

  ... atmosphere. Jonathan Fortney, who studies exoplanets at the University of Southern ... more comprehensive survey of the exoplanet's atmospheric composition as well as ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  What's Inside Proxima Centauri B, Our Nearest Exoplanet Neighbor

  The closest potentially habitable planet has an intriguing interior

  ... call Proxima Centauri home. The exoplanet, named Proxima b, orbits Proxima ... Franck Marchis, chair of the exoplanet group at the SETI Institute ...

  By Charles Q. Choi
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  space

  NASA's newest planet hunter has already found two potential exoplanets

  And TESS is just getting started.

  ... two months after NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started its ... the preliminary results. The first exoplanet candidate was announced on September ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs