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I (exoplanet HR 5183 b) came in like a wrecking ball
Everyone wants to find a habitable planet. The authors of today’s paper make a compelling case that the HR 5183 system is not the best place to look.
Can Planets Survive Being Eaten?
The authors of today’s paper present a detection of a planet orbiting around its middle-aged host star – a star that was predicted to eat any planets in its way. Now the question remains, how does this planet exist?
Wake up! The first planet beyond the Milky Way just dropped
In today’s paper, the authors present evidence of the first planet discovered in a
galaxy other than our own.
Scoring GOALS with Neutrinos from Starbursts
What do neutrinos and soccer games have in common? Check out today’s bite to see! Spoiler: starbursts lose the neutrino production game!
New Clues in the CMB Cold (Spot) Case
20 years ago, WMAP discovered the anomalous Cold Spot in the CMB. Researchers have since been puzzling over its existence, but the case of the Cold Spot still remains open. Recently, researchers have proposed a theory that the foregrounds of a galaxy supergroup could be responsible for the Cold Spot. Could these foregrounds really be the culprit?
Tag you’re it!
Chemical tagging is the idea that using the chemistry of stars we can reconstruct their birth clusters. But can it actually be done?
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