Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’ https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-spocks-home-planet-goes-poof/ #NASA #ExoplanetDetectionMethods #ExoplanetScience #ExoplanetTransits #Exoplanets #RadialVelocity #SuperEarthExoplanets
Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’ - NASA Science
The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new stud…science.nasa.gov