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Citizen scientists found a remarkable exoplanet and named it after a Harry Potter character

Citizen scientists mining data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered a record-breaking world and gave it a memorable nickname to match: Percival, after the father of Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books. . But in more formal terms, the extrasolar planet or “exoplanet” is called TOI 4633 c.… Read More »

This rare exoplanet system has 6 ‘sub-Neptunes’ with mathematically perfect orbits.

Astronomers have discovered an unusual star system just 100 light-years away from us, where six planets are clustered extremely close to their host star, so close in fact that their entire orbits fit within the distance between them. Mercury and our sun. Surprisingly, unlike our own solar system, this newly discovered slice of the cosmos… Read More »