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.
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.
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?
In today’s paper, the authors present evidence of the first planet discovered in a
galaxy other than our own.
The spectroscopists don’t want you to know that exoplanet atmospheres are actually three-dimensional! Today’s authors use computational climate models to study how we might be able to directly observe different planetary heating processes.
Venus may be quite similar in size and mass as Earth, but its surface conditions could not be any more different! Can a modern space telescope like JWST identify the difference between an exoEarth and an exoVenus?
We interviewed Prof. Marta Bryan from the University of Toronto to learn all about exoplanets ahead of her plenary talk at #AAS243!