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Let’s Talk About Those Seven Planets Around TRAPPIST-1
NASA always drops big news, but today was special. Seven Earth-sized exoplanets around a single star. Located 40…
55 Cancri e Gets a Temperature Map And It’s a Scorcher
For 80 hours, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope kept close tabs on 55 Cancri e. Because the planet orbits…
That’s No Alien Megastructure. It’s a Comet Swarm (Probably)
KIC 8462852 was all the rave recently when researchers speculated that the star’s mysterious dimming could be because…