Tagged: star system

While exploring two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, ESA’s exoplanet-hunting Cheops satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system’s third known planet crossing the face of the star. This transit reveals exciting details about a rare planet “with no known equivalent,” say the researchers. The...

Scientists at Cornell University and the American Museum of Natural History have identified 2,034 nearby star-systems—within the small cosmic distance of 326 light-years—that could find Earth merely by watching our pale blue dot cross our sun. That’s 1,715 star-systems that could have spotted Earth since...

You might easily think of stars as single objects, each one beaming its solitary light from the depths of space. Most stars, though, even those we see as single, reside in multiple star systems. Many systems have two, three or more stars. Some are even...

Groups of stars can tear their planet-forming disk to shreds, leaving behind warped, misaligned rings, scientists find in a breakthrough study. Solar systems like ours generally form with their planets all orbiting in the same, flat plane. But, as an international team of scientists has...

“It was as if somebody had just created a telescope that was a time machine.” Scientists have combined modern spacecraft data with vintage observations to piece together a 125-year-long story of the antics of a nearby triple-star system dubbed HS Hydra — and predict its...

If you’ve ever ridden a teacup ride at a state fair you might be ready for life in the six-star system TIC 168789840. Ever ridden a teacup ride at a state fair? If so, you might have a small taste of life in a whirling,...

Pictured is Teegarden’s star and its two planets, with our solar system in the background. The Teegarden star system is the 24th nearest star system to ours, and the fourth closest among those systems with exoplanets. UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN, INSTITUTE FOR ASTROPHYSICS When it comes...