Tag: exoplanet
The Webb space telescope and the Miri instrument told by the French scientists who made it
A few days before the launch of the James-Webb, the most powerful space telescope ever built will finally fly aboard an Ariane 5 and continue the work of its predecessor,…
Webb, the largest space telescope ever built, told by the French scientists who made it
A few days before the launch of the James-Webb, the most powerful space telescope ever built will finally fly aboard an Ariane 5 and continue the work of its predecessor,…
Surprise! Exoplanets can also form around massive stars
Despite the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, none seemed to be able to exist around stars exceeding more than three times the mass of the Sun and this also did…
172 new exoplanets, including 18 systems, in the net of astronomers!
There are currently nearly 5,000 confirmed exoplanets. And astronomers keep finding new candidates. Still in the archives of the Kepler Space Telescope today. They report the discovery of no less…
Discovery of the exoplanet GJ 367b, a dense and overheated sub-Earth
An exoplanet half as massive as Earth, but denser and much warmer, has been discovered around a nearby red dwarf. This object, of an unusual type among those discovered to…
And 300 more exoplanets tracked down by Kepler and Deep Learning
NASA scientists recently added 301 exoplanets to the list of planets discovered using the Kepler Space Telescope, supplementing the 4,569 planets already validated. For this they used a method of…