Dan Brandon
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Nov 16
Our Solar System Is Almost Normal, But Not Quite : by Ethan Siegel
Images credit: NASA / Kepler Dan Fabricky (L), of a selection of the known Kepler exoplanets; Rebecca G. Martin and Mario Livio (2015) ApJ 810, 105 (R), of 287 confirmed exoplanets relative to our eight solar system planets. It was just over 20 years ago that the very first exoplanet was found and confirmed …
Oct 23
Final Kiss of Two Stars Heading for Catastrophe | ESO
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found the hottest and most massive double star with components so close that they touch each other. The two stars in the extreme system VFTS 352 could be heading for a dramatic end, during which the two stars either coalesce to create a single …
Oct 11
New Horizons Picks Up Styx | NASA
NASA Spacecraft Observes Pluto’s Smallest Moon New images from NASA’s New Horizons reveal the size and shape of Pluto’s smallest moon, Styx. Styx – also the faintest of Pluto’s five moons – was discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, when New Horizons was more than two-thirds into its voyage to Pluto. The Styx …
