Hubble telescope discovers largest protoplanetary disk Dracula’s Chivito – planet formation insights

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered the largest protoplanetary disk ever, nicknamed Dracula’s Chivito, about 1,000 light-years from Earth. It is 40 times bigger than our solar ...
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'Super-Jupiter' exoplanet is not so Jupiter-like, UCSC study finds

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...
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What old, dying stars teach us about axions as a candidate for dark matter

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...
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'What the heck is this?' James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.