Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...
Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...
Things are much bigger outside the solar system.
A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...
The planets orbit a star around 133 light-years away from Earth.
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't have hard surfaces. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants in our solar ...
Gas giants are enormous planets made primarily of hydrogen and helium. They may contain dense central cores, but unlike Earth, they do not have solid ...
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 6The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky ...
'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...
Blue supergiant stars are hot, luminous stars that are larger than our sun (i.e., have more mass and larger radii), but smaller than red supergiant stars. They typically have surface temperatures ...
Jupiter can be easily spotted in the constellation Gemini, located just below and to the right of Castor and Pollux, the two brightest stars in the constellation. Castor appears white and Pollux has ...