Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and NEID Spectrometers developed at Penn...
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New planet in Kepler-51 system discovered using James Webb Space Telescope
The unusual system of three ‘super puff’ planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other...
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JWST identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf
CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman led a study identifying the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny,...
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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
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
CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water...
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Many exoplanets have nearly circular orbits
New analysis of observational data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope catalogs planetary properties; informs climate of planets Most...
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Nearby star could help explain why our sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years
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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Belatedly Habitable Planets
CEHW Graduate student Noah Tuchow and CEHW Professor Jason Wright introduce “Belatedly Habitable Planets”, a new type of...
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Newly discovered gas giant moving closer to its star
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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A journey of exoplanet discovery begins as Penn State’s NEID spectrometer starts its scientific mission
Suvrath Mahadevan and Sam Sholtis The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now...
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