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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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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Rapid Formation of Super-Earths Around Low-Mass Stars
Simulating the formation of super-Earths around M dwarfs A recent study accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal...
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CEHW astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems
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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Penn State’s Habitable Zone Planet Finder Enables Discovery of Planets Around Cool Stars
A new astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State-led team of scientists provides the highest precision measurements to date of...
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Habitability of Exoplanet Water Worlds
“Water world” planets, those covered with a deep global ocean, could maintain surface conditions similar to that of the Earth for over a...
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Introducing CyberLAMP, the Cyber-Laboratory for Astronomy, Materials, and Physics
National Science Foundation funds supercomputer cluster at Penn State February 21, 2017 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State...
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