'1 million to 1 billion years': NASA’s TESS telescope is decoding the age secrets of exoplanets
Comparing young and old exoplanets helps astronomers understand how planets form, evolve, and change over time.
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What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?
A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...
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What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?
Observing young exoplanets offers a unique opportunity to study planets in their primordial state, before they undergo the extensive atmospheric and evolutionary changes seen in older populations ...
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The significance of the recent 'baby pictures' showing the universe when it was just 380,000 years old
"The first image gives us a snapshot of tiny variations in the density of the primordial gas. Over millions of years, the slightly denser regions grew under the influence of gravity to form stars ...
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For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ... TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System of Two Exoplanets Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered two ...
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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
Gaia's primary goal was to map the positions and movements of over a billion stars within the Milky Way, creating the largest, most precise 3D map of our galaxy.
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Bizarre Things: Space & Time
Mar. 20, 2025 — Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the ...