Planets Can Form Even in Harsh Stellar Environments, New ALMA Observations Suggest
Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have actually caught high-resolution pictures of 8 protoplanetary disks in Sigma Orionis, a star cluster irradiated by extreme ultraviolet light from a…
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Boost for Mars life? Red Planet’s magnetic field may have lasted longer than thought
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS) Mars’ magnetic field may have survived 200 million years longer than scientists had thought — crucially, long enough for it to overlap with the presence of liquid…
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32 alien planets that really exist
(Image credit: BENOIT GOUGEON, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL) Far beyond the 8 familiar worlds in our planetary system, numerous strange and severe worlds wait for discovery– and some have actually currently…
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