Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers have witnessed a distant, Jupiter-size world “shrinking” as its host star bombards it with heavy radiation. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” is named TOI
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers have witnessed a distant, Jupiter-size world “shrinking” as its host star bombards it with heavy radiation. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” is named TOI
Transit spectra of the best fit non-equilibrium 1D model at resolution 200 (black solid line). This is the approximate best fit on the simulated grid of metallicity, C/O and Kzz.
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Synthetic atmospheric transmission spectra of Ross 176 b. Left: Fiducial models for clear or hazy H/He atmospheres with scaled solar abundances. Right: Model for a steam H2O atmosphere. Simulated measurements
Left: Planet-to-star mass ratio as a function of the planet semi-major axis for all planets orbiting M-dwarf stars. Darker coloured symbols correspond to planetary masses above 0.2 MJup. Horizontal dotted
NASA Glenn Research Center’s Thermal Energy Conversion Branch team and the University of Leicester’s Space Nuclear Power team pose for a photo at the center in Cleveland following a successful test
Another NASA bigwig is stepping down. NASA announced on Monday (July 21) that Makenzie Lystrup, director of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, will leave the agency on Aug.
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July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the
Earth biosignatures through time and their reflected light spectra. The left subplot shows estimates of Earth’s bulk atmospheric composition through time (advancing from top to bottom), and the figures on