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Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars.
In fact, rogue exoplanet...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
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One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...
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Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...
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Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...
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The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
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Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seve...
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One of the reasons we’ve created Exoplanet Radio is that Exoplanets are awesome. The idea that there are planets in orbit around stars outside our...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
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This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of th...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
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In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. These rogue planets could have formed from the same m...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
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To get anywhere in the galaxy at anything resembling a reasonable time, we need to go fast - some fraction of light speed would be best. Proxima C...
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A massive, Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered orbiting a small, low-mass star and this discovery is challenging theories on how planets fo...
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Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplane...
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We are a species of wonder. We have always looked up at the stars and wondered if we are alone in the universe. Are there other worlds out there, w...
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WASP-39 b is a hot and puffy planet with a mass roughly one-quarter that of Jupiter and a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter. Its extreme puff...
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Did you know that incarcerated individuals who participate in Chef Jimmy Hill’s culinary training program have a 6% recidivism rate? Join Food Sleu...
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- Added: Aug 17, 2023
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Aside from our own solar system, one of the most studied stellar systems lies about 40 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Aquar...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2023
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Welcome to Exoplanet Radio, I’m Tony Darnell.
Astronomers have found evidence of a possible planet outside of our Milky Way galaxy. If confirmed, t...
- Added: Aug 15, 2023
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The Webb Space Telescope observed this planet as it passed between the telescope and the host star, LHS 475. By watching the spectra of that star ...
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Astronomers have found a planet around a red giant star that should have been destroyed, yet it still exists, leaving astronomers to wonder why the...
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Did you know that the closest star to us has a planet around it that may be habitable? In 2016 astronomers discovered a planet around the red-dwarf...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2023
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Of all the exoplanets we’ve discovered so far, the most exciting when it comes to finding life elsewhere, reside in the system known as TRAPPIST-1.
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- Added: Aug 14, 2023
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The Midnight Special was one of a slew of late night music shows that proved people would stay up late to watch something they liked. This was bef...
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Did you know that the discovery of other planets in orbit around other stars is a very recent one? Only 25 years ago, we had no idea there were an...
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Exoplanet Radio takes you on a journey to the farthest and coolest planets in the galaxy. Every day we will share with you some of the most amazing...
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