* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    Netflix unveils Dallas immersive venue for fans of hit shows like ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Stranger Things’ – Houston Chronicle

    Step Inside Netflix’s New Dallas Immersive Experience Featuring Hits Like ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Stranger Things

    ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’: Civic Players bring ‘Young Frankenstein’ to life – Yahoo

    Civic Players Deliver a Hilarious and Unforgettable Performance of ‘Young Frankenstein

    ‘Wheel of Fortune’: Amputee Wins $60,000 After Breaking Incredible ‘Curse’ – Hastings Tribune

    Wheel of Fortune’ Amputee Breaks Incredible ‘Curse’ to Win $60,000!

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    Safety concerns in Deep Ellum create apprehension as the entertainment district gains visitors – CBS News

    Safety Concerns Surge Amid Deep Ellum’s Booming Popularity and Growing Crowds

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Frontdoor Announces Tech Expert Dr. Bala Ganesh as Chief Technology Officer – Business Wire

    Frontdoor Appoints Tech Visionary Dr. Bala Ganesh as New Chief Technology Officer

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    China’s Military Introduces Mosquito-Sized Drones: A Game-Changing Surveillance Technology – Indian Defence Review

    China Unveils Mosquito-Sized Drones: Revolutionizing Surveillance Technology

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Promising Technology Stocks To Follow Today – June 22nd – MarketBeat

    Top Technology Stocks to Watch Today – June 22nd

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    Netflix unveils Dallas immersive venue for fans of hit shows like ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Stranger Things’ – Houston Chronicle

    Step Inside Netflix’s New Dallas Immersive Experience Featuring Hits Like ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Stranger Things

    ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’: Civic Players bring ‘Young Frankenstein’ to life – Yahoo

    Civic Players Deliver a Hilarious and Unforgettable Performance of ‘Young Frankenstein

    ‘Wheel of Fortune’: Amputee Wins $60,000 After Breaking Incredible ‘Curse’ – Hastings Tribune

    Wheel of Fortune’ Amputee Breaks Incredible ‘Curse’ to Win $60,000!

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    Safety concerns in Deep Ellum create apprehension as the entertainment district gains visitors – CBS News

    Safety Concerns Surge Amid Deep Ellum’s Booming Popularity and Growing Crowds

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Frontdoor Announces Tech Expert Dr. Bala Ganesh as Chief Technology Officer – Business Wire

    Frontdoor Appoints Tech Visionary Dr. Bala Ganesh as New Chief Technology Officer

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    China’s Military Introduces Mosquito-Sized Drones: A Game-Changing Surveillance Technology – Indian Defence Review

    China Unveils Mosquito-Sized Drones: Revolutionizing Surveillance Technology

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Promising Technology Stocks To Follow Today – June 22nd – MarketBeat

    Top Technology Stocks to Watch Today – June 22nd

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Technology

NASA Releases Journal Packed With the Most Bizarre Alien Worlds

May 27, 2024
in Technology
NASA Releases Journal Packed With the Most Bizarre Alien Worlds
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Do we live in an unusual star system? Astronomers have been trying to figure out if the Solar System is unique compared to other stars and their orbiting planets, and they just took a major step towards answering the longstanding cosmic mystery.

An international team of planet-hunting astronomers spent three years analyzing thousands of measurements to calculate the masses of 120 confirmed exoplanets, as well as six candidate planets, spread across the northern sky. The result is an extensive catalog that details just how bizarre and exotic these alien worlds are and how they compare to our own star system. The findings are detailed in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement.

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in collaboration with the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawai’i, the newly released catalog features a wide array of planets orbiting different kinds of stars. “With this information, we can begin to answer questions about where our solar system fits in to the grand tapestry of other planetary systems,” Stephen Kane, University of California, Riverside astrophysicist and principal investigator of the TESS-Keck Survey, said in a statement.

Artistic conception of the sub-Neptune, designated TOI-1824 b.

One of the oddballs in the catalog is a sub-Neptune with an unusually high density, making it both extremely massive and surprisingly small. Designated TOI-1824 b, this exoplanet is nearly 19 times the mass of Earth, but only 2.6 times the size of our home planet, meaning it holds a significant amount of mass in a tightly-squeezed body. “Planets similar in size typically have a mass between roughly 6 and 12 times the mass of Earth,” explained Joseph Murphy, a graduate student at the UC Santa Cruz and co-author of the study. This “exoplanet oddity” as Murphy refers to it, may have an Earth-like core surrounded by an unusually thin, hydrogen-dominated atmosphere, or it could have a water-rich core beneath a steam atmosphere.

Another extreme example is a super-Earth that is so close to its host star, it completes one orbit in less than 12 hours. TOI-1798 c orbits an orange dwarf star, along with another planet, TOI-1798 b, a sub-Neptune that has an orbit of about eight days.

“While the majority of planets we know about today orbit their star faster than Mercury orbits the Sun, USPs [ultra-short periods] take this to the extreme,” University of Kansas Physics and Astronomy graduate student Alex Polanski, the lead author of the paper, said in a statement. “TOI-1798 c orbits its star so quickly that one year on this planet lasts less than half a day on Earth.”

The super-Earth has likely lost any atmosphere that it had initially formed due to its extreme environment and close exposure to its star’s radiation.

The team of astronomers also discovered two new planets orbiting a star like our Sun, one of which is a sub-Saturn planet with a mass and radius that are somewhere between those of Neptune and Saturn. TOI-1386 b, as it’s known, only takes 26 days to orbit its star, while its neighboring planet, with a mass close to that of Saturn, takes 227 days to orbit the same star.

“There is ongoing debate about whether sub-Saturn planets are truly rare, or if we are just bad at finding planets like these,” Michelle Hill, UCR graduate student and lead author of a related survey paper, said in a statement. “So, this planet, TOI-1386 b, is an important addition to this demographic of planets.”

The planets themselves are not visible in the data, but they do have a visible effect on their host stars. During their orbits, the planets tug on their host stars, causing the stars to wobble. Astronomers can see the stars wobbling because their visible light turns slightly bluer when they move towards a telescope, and the light shifts slightly more red when they move away from the telescope. This is known as the Doppler effect, when there’s change in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves from a source that’s moving in relation to its observer.

Using radial velocity (RV) measurements, astronomers can not only detect an exoplanet orbiting a star but also learn more about the planet’s properties, including its mass. With ongoing surveys of the skies, we can expect more catalogs like this one that showcase the bizarre features of surrounding alien worlds.

“There are still thousands of unconfirmed planets from the TESS mission alone, so large releases of new planets like this will become more common as astronomers work to get a handle on the diversity of worlds we see today,” Ian Crossfield, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, and co-author of the paper, said in a statement.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Gizmodo (AU) – https://gizmodo.com.au/2024/05/nasa-releases-journal-packed-with-the-most-bizarre-alien-worlds/

Tags: Journalreleasestechnology
Previous Post

Last Of Us Director Says AI Will ‘Push The Boundaries Of Storytelling In Games’

Next Post

Apple Rumored to Have a Creaseless Folding MacBook in the Works

Frontdoor Announces Tech Expert Dr. Bala Ganesh as Chief Technology Officer – Business Wire

Frontdoor Appoints Tech Visionary Dr. Bala Ganesh as New Chief Technology Officer

June 25, 2025
City council approves Sports Illustrated Resort – WBRC 6 News

City Council Approves Exciting New Sports Illustrated Resort Project

June 25, 2025
MEPAG Search for Life – Science Analysis Group Science Community Virtual Workshops – astrobiology.com

MEPAG Search for Life – Science Analysis Group Science Community Virtual Workshops – astrobiology.com

June 25, 2025
Volusia County Marine Science Center reopens to the public – Spectrum News 13

Volusia County Marine Science Center Welcomes Visitors Once Again

June 25, 2025

Boss Lifestyle’ Ponzi Scheme Mastermind Admits Guilt in $23 Million Fraud Scandal

June 25, 2025
Exclusive | Stablecoin World Opens Up to Main Street Banks – WSJ

Exclusive | Stablecoin World Opens Up to Main Street Banks – WSJ

June 25, 2025
UK calls China a major challenge but an essential economic partner – AP News

UK Labels China a Major Challenge While Emphasizing Its Role as a Vital Economic Partner

June 25, 2025
George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

June 25, 2025
Neera Tanden defends use of presidential autopen, denies covering up Biden’s health – WSYX

Neera Tanden Defends Use of Presidential Autopen, Rejects Claims of Concealing Biden’s Health Information

June 25, 2025
Blake Farenthold, 63, Congressman Who Quit in Harassment Case, Dies – The New York Times

Former Congressman Blake Farenthold, Who Resigned Amid Harassment Scandal, Dies at 63

June 25, 2025

Categories

Archives

June 2025
MTWTFSS
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30 
« May    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (698)
  • Economy (716)
  • Entertainment (21,612)
  • General (15,556)
  • Health (9,755)
  • Lifestyle (721)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (718)
  • Politics (723)
  • Science (15,934)
  • Sports (21,213)
  • Technology (15,702)
  • World (696)

Recent News

Frontdoor Announces Tech Expert Dr. Bala Ganesh as Chief Technology Officer – Business Wire

Frontdoor Appoints Tech Visionary Dr. Bala Ganesh as New Chief Technology Officer

June 25, 2025
City council approves Sports Illustrated Resort – WBRC 6 News

City Council Approves Exciting New Sports Illustrated Resort Project

June 25, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version