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WISPIT 2b: Giant Planet Growing in a Distant Gap 0 (0)

WISPIT 2 is a protostar, a very young star that’s still growing. At the moment, it’s roughly as massive as our Sun, and very roughly a third of the way to Kappa Aquila: a very bright, very hot, star that’s … Continue reading

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A Super-Earth With an Air About It: 55 Cancri e, Janssen 0 (0)

This month’s analysis of a piping hot super-Earth’s atmosphere is a big deal. But it’s not the “first” detection of a terrestrial exoplanet’s atmosphere, not by about eight years.1 I’ll be talking about how scientists sift through data, 55 Cancri … Continue reading

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Colliding Planets Near ASASSN-21qj: Maybe 0 (0)

They were looking for supernovae. What they found may become a double planet, like the Earth-Moon system, once it cools down. Or a planet with a giant moon, again like the Earth-Moon system. Then again, an oddly-uneven dusty disk may … Continue reading

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Spokes in Saturn’s Rings, View With Hubble Space Telescope 0 (0)

That’s a one minute, four second, video with music and no narration. Cool, though. So was this three-minute (their estimate) read from NASA: And that’s all the writing I’m doing today: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023. Aside from wishing you … Continue reading

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Sednoids, Rewinding the Solar System in a Simulation  0 (0)

Sedna and Sednoids aren’t this month’s only science news. But I saw two exciting, for me, developments; and that’s what I started talking about last week. This week I’ll wrap up most of what I was going to say about … Continue reading

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