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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

Posted on Nov 30, 2023 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports...

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Earth-like planets could form even in the harshest environments

Posted on Nov 30, 2023 in Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water...

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​​Nearby star could help explain why our sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years

Posted on Mar 23, 2022 in Featured, Our Solar System, Star Properties | 0 comments

CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Read more in...

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Newly discovered gas giant moving closer to its star

Posted on Oct 13, 2021 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

A newly discovered gas giant planet with an elliptical, comet-like orbit is closing in on its host star, according to new research by a...

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CEHW astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems

Posted on Dec 1, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Publications, Star & Planet Formation, Statistical Methodology & Data Analysis | 0 comments

Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions Data from the Kepler...

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Where to search for signs of life

Posted on Nov 13, 2020 in Featured, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, News, Publications, Research | 0 comments

A recent study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal proposes a new strategy for searching for biosignatures, chemical...

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HPF discovers a Jupiter transiting the cool star TOI-1899

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News | 0 comments

HPF has confirmed the planetary nature of a single-transiting Jupiter-sized planet (1.15 Jupiter radii) orbiting a nearby low mass M dwarf...

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CEHW Professor Dawson honored with Urey Prize

Posted on Aug 14, 2020 in Awards & Honors, Featured, News | 0 comments

The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society is pleased to award the 2020 Harold C. Urey Prize for outstanding...

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A young sub-Neptune-sized planet sheds light onto how planets form and evolve

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Instrumentation, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors | 0 comments

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The detailed characterization of a young planet slightly smaller than Neptune provides insight into how such...

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NEID Spectrograph Sees First Light

Posted on Jan 10, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Instrumentation, News, Press Coverage | 0 comments

The exoplanet-hunting instrument NEID, designed and built at Penn State, has passed an important milestone on the road to discovering...

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