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TOI-1075 b is one of the most massive super-Earths ever discovered. Nearly 10 times Earth’s mass, it orbits a small, red-orange star in only 14½ hours. This makes the planet extremely hot, with an estimated temperature of 1,922 degrees F (1,050 C). https://go.nasa.gov/3LzD1Kl
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Discovery Alert: Massive Planet is a 'Hulk' among Super-Earths

New observations show that a previously identified exoplanet, TOI-1075 b, is among the most massive super-Earths found so far.
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218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are two planets unlike any in our solar system. Astronomers think that a significant fraction of their volume should be made of something lighter than rock but heavier than hydrogen or helium: water. https://go.nasa.gov/41BRXNC
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Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Find

A team led by researchers at the University of Montreal has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," where water makes up a large fraction of the entire planet.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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5,338! That's how many planets we've confirmed beyond our solar system, six more worlds than we knew of last week. We are in an age of discovery✨ http://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery
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Discoveries Dashboard | Discovery – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

See the latest real-time data dashboard from NASA on exoplanet discoveries, planet types, and more.
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✨ @NASAHubble launched #OTD 33 years ago! It's been our window to the cosmos ever since. Celebrate this intrepid explorer with our free poster or digital background: https://go.nasa.gov/3n3g7S3
#MondayMotivation: Never stop exploring!
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Hubble Space Telescope Poster - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

In space for more than 30 years, Hubble truly is NASA’s most versatile, intrepid explorer. It brought the cosmos down to Earth.
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This month, our TESS spacecraft celebrates 5 years in space! It's discovered planets, observed stars and has told us more about how our universe works. More than 50 nations have contributed science from TESS🌍https://go.nasa.gov/3opfR05
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NASA’s TESS Celebrates Fifth Year Scanning the Sky for New Worlds

Now in its fifth year in space, NASA’s TESS mission has found 329 new worlds, thousands of candidates, and provided insights into a wide array of cosmic phenomena.
Francis Reddy (NASA)
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We love Earth so much, we're looking for planets like it!
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Of all the planets in the galaxy, we're living on the best one for us and everything we love. Happy #EarthDay, Earthlings💚
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There's strong evidence – including a radioactive type of iron – that supernovae occurred close to Earth between ~2m-8 million years ago. A new study shows how X-rays from such stellar explosions could threaten any life on surrounding planets for decades. https://go.nasa.gov/3op5LvX
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New Stellar Danger to Planets Identified by NASA's Chandra

Astronomers have determined supernova explosions pose yet another threat to planets and their atmospheres. This result comes from analysis of X-ray observations for over 30 supernovae using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.
Lee Mohon (NASA)
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Space telescopes like @chandraxray and NuSTAR were used for the supernovae study because they observe the universe in high energy X-rays. X-ray views help us see beyond visible light! https://go.nasa.gov/3omAxWi
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Celebrate 10 Years of NuSTAR With a New Poster - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, explores our universe with its X-ray vision.
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For 33 years, @NASAHubble has been our window to the cosmos. And for its anniversary, it has a gift for us. This nebula of glowing gasses and pitch-black dust is stirred by forming stars. NGC 1333 is in the Perseus molecular cloud, ~960 light-years away. https://go.nasa.gov/3MW8qHX
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Hubble Celebrates 33rd Anniversary with Image of Star-Forming Region

Astronomers are celebrating NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud, and located approximately 960 light-years away.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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We've relied on 33 years of science from @NASAHubble to tell us more about our universe and the worlds within. Hubble has helped us better understand exoplanets by taking a closer look. We love you, @NASAHubble 💙 https://go.nasa.gov/3N0lz2x
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Hubble Space Telescope Poster - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

In space for more than 30 years, Hubble truly is NASA’s most versatile, intrepid explorer. It brought the cosmos down to Earth.
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The nearest exoplanet is just 4 light-years away, but it's hard to study because it doesn't transit (or cross the face of) its star to our view. Proxima b is probably a rocky world under an orange-red sun, with two neighboring stars bright in the sky. https://go.nasa.gov/3mEJ46M
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An Earth-like atmosphere may not survive Proxima b's orbit

Proxima b, an Earth-size planet right outside our solar system in the habitable zone of its star, may not be able to keep a grip on its atmosphere, leaving the surface exposed to harmful stellar radiation.
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Milestone Alert!
@NASARoman received new tech to measure the light of cosmic objects like galaxies and supernovae. When Roman launches by May 2027, scientists will use its data to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, and discover exoplanets. https://go.nasa.gov/3MWo3z9
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Goddard Team Builds, Tests Calibrator for NASA’s Roman in Record Time

A vital subsystem for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently installed in the spacecraft’s Wide Field Instrument.
Ashley Balzer (NASA)
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#OTD in 2018, @nasa launched the TESS Space Telescope. In its first five years, TESS has discovered 329 planets and 4,300+ planet candidates. https://go.nasa.gov/3opfR05 Here are some exoplanet highlights!🧵⬇️
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NASA’s TESS Celebrates Fifth Year Scanning the Sky for New Worlds

Now in its fifth year in space, NASA’s TESS mission has found 329 new worlds, thousands of candidates, and provided insights into a wide array of cosmic phenomena.
Francis Reddy (NASA)
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TESS’ first discovery was a world called Pi Mensae c. It orbits the star Pi Mensae, ~60 light-years away and visible to the unaided eye in the Southern Hemisphere. This discovery kicked off NASA's new era of planet hunting. https://go.nasa.gov/2VFm70W
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NASA's TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, in its first three months of observations.
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In 2020, TESS discovered its first Earth-size world in the habitable zone of its star – the distance from a star at which liquid water *could* exist on a planet’s surface. Earlier this year, a second rocky planet was discovered in the system.
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In addition to finding exoplanets on its own, TESS serves as a pathfinder for @NASAWebb. TESS discovered the rocky world LHS 3448 b, but Webb will tell us more about it. Our telescopes, much like our scientists, work together. https://go.nasa.gov/3L5mEW2
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Geology from 50 Light-Years: Webb Gets Ready to Study Rocky Worlds

Researchers will train Webb’s high-precision spectrographs on two intriguing rocky exoplanets.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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TESS looks at stars to find much tinier planets orbiting them. A closer look at a neighboring star required scientists to peer through the dusty realm of creation. Within the debris disk of an angry young star, they found a planet! And then another…
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#OTD in 2014, @nasa's Kepler Space Telescope discovered its first planet in the habitable zone of another star. It made us wonder, what might life look like under a red sun? Guided tour: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/exoplanet-travel-bureau/kepler-186f-guided-tour/
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Kepler-186f - Guided Tour | Exoplanet Travel Bureau – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

Kepler-186f was the first exoplanet discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
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Shining brighter than a trillion suns✨
Our galaxy, seen from a distance, would appear as bright as 10 billion suns. @NASAWebb observed an object brighter than one *trillion* suns. It's actually two galaxies merging, leading to luminous star formation. https://go.nasa.gov/3oef1TD
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Webb Captures the Spectacular Galactic Merger Arp 220

Shining like a brilliant beacon amidst a sea of galaxies, Arp 220 lights up the night sky in this view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Isabelle Yan (NASA)
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A streak in a @NASAHubble image was so unusual that it was thought to be an artifact. Later observations revealed it to be a 200,000-light-year-long chain of bright newborn stars spurred by a possible runaway black hole. We've never seen anything like it! https://go.nasa.gov/3ZXD9XW
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Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars

There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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There are planets with clouds made of vaporized rocks. Others may have iron rain or winds blowing with the ingredients for jewels. It's a big universe. @NASAWebb allows us to peer into exoplanet atmospheres to better understand all the worlds out there.
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Exoplanet Clouds: 'Jewels' of New Knowledge

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will take aim at exoplanet clouds, revealing secrets of their atmospheres.
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Some days you just want to listen to the universe🎶
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We all see the universe a bit differently.
@NASAHubble's ultra deep field took 11+ days and revealed ~10,000 galaxies. @NASAWebb imaged the same area in 20+ hours and its resolution helps us understand how and when those galaxies developed. https://go.nasa.gov/3zPIBl5
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Webb Shows Areas of New Star Formation and Galactic Evolution – James Webb Space Telescope

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A streak in a @NASAHubble image was so unusual that astronomers thought it must be a camera artifact. Later observations revealed it to be a 200,000-light-year-long chain of bright blue newborn stars spurred by a possible runaway black hole! https://go.nasa.gov/3ZXD9XW
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Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars

There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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Generations of Giants
Within a globular cluster orbiting the center of our galaxy, @NASAHubble found two separate populations of red giant stars, one unusually helium rich. These observations challenge ideas about formation. Did they arise together? https://go.nasa.gov/3mk1Ekc
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Hubble Spies a Multi-Generational Cluster

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular star cluster NGC 2419.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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As humanity casts an ever-wider net across the cosmos, capturing evidence of thousands of worlds, an ancient question haunts us: Is anybody out there? https://go.nasa.gov/3ZRtQZi
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Life in the Universe: What are the Odds?

We don't know when, or even if, we'll find life beyond Earth, but NASA scientists continue the hunt among the thousands of exoplanets confirmed in the galaxy so far.
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The ingredients that form planets and people were forged in stars. How that material was distributed throughout the universe is a key question that might be answered in part by studying the supernova remnant next-door, Cassiopeia A. (Also, it's pretty!) http://go.nasa.gov/3ZJnk72
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Webb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details in Cassiopeia A

A new mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), created by a stellar explosion seen from Earth 340 years ago.
Isabelle Yan (NASA)
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Ringed planet or portal to another world?
It's both! Studying the ice giants in our solar system can help us refine models and increase our understanding of many of the *other* planets in our galaxy. (N)ice work, @NASAWebb! https://go.nasa.gov/3nTo3oO
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NASA’s Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus

Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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RINGS
AROUND
URANUS!
Uranus is unique: It rotates on its side, at a ~90-degree angle. This causes extreme seasons as the poles experience 42 years of constant sunlight followed by 42 years of darkness. Has it ever looked better than @NASAWebb's view? http://go.nasa.gov/3nTo3oO
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NASA’s Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus

Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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All of these #CitizenScience programs are great, but we have to admit that we're partial to the ones where you can discover exoplanets. Follow @DoNASAScience for more.
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About 390 million light-years away, the galaxy Z 229-15 shines extra brightly, as seen by @NASAHubble. Its luminosity is caused by a black hole at the center as a disk of material heats as it swirls toward the galaxy's core: https://go.nasa.gov/40uKG1z
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Hubble Views an Intriguing Active Galaxy

This luminous image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Z 229-15, a celestial object that lies about 390 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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5,322! That's how many planets we've confirmed beyond our solar system. That includes 10 such recent discoveries as K2-415 b, a warm, super-Earth orbiting a low-mass M dwarf star 71 light-years away. A year there, one orbit, takes 4 days. http://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/
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Discoveries Dashboard | Discovery – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

See the latest real-time data dashboard from NASA on exoplanet discoveries, planet types, and more.
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We're excited to follow @NASAScienceAA Dr. Nicky Fox on Twitter and in our work! We can't wait to see where her leadership takes us as we discover and explore new worlds. And you know we'll be sharing it all with you!✨
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We're excited to follow @NASAScienceAA Nicky Fox on Twitter and in our work! We can's wait to see where her leadership takes us as we discover and explore new worlds.✨
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Things with rings:
Circuses
Planets
…and Stars?
5,300 light-years away, two giant stars come together every 8 years with such force that stellar material is blown away. Each meeting forms a new ring. @NASAWebb captured a century+ of this dance. https://go.nasa.gov/3RYZlwG
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Star Duo Forms ‘Fingerprint’ in Space, NASA’s Webb Finds

A new image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
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Showy Saturn may get all the attention, but ringed worlds aren't rare. Every gas giant in our solar system has rings! Take in @NASAWebb's ethereal, infrared views of Jupiter and Neptune's dust bands, rings and moons: https://go.nasa.gov/3RXxoGq
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New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune’s Rings in Decades

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune.
Jessica Merzdorf (NASA)
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Can you imagine a ring system so large it would eclipse the Sun? We can! Astronomers found evidence of a planet with rings 200 times bigger than Saturn's. They also saw those rings eclipsing the planet's Sun-like star! https://go.nasa.gov/3zFA8Rv
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Super-Saturn: astronomers find a massive ring system around an exoplanet

Astronomers, have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn.
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Do planets beyond our solar system have rings like Saturn?🪐 We have evidence that the answer is yes, and a new study uses 40 years of data to help us understand how we can look for so-called ''exo rings.'' (Yes, please!) http://go.nasa.gov/3G0C8Y4
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Hubble Finds Saturn's Rings Heating Its Atmosphere

Saturn's vast ring system is heating the giant planet's upper atmosphere. The phenomenon has never before been seen in the solar system.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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The first TRAPPIST-1 science focused on the innermost planet, but there are six more worlds to explore, including three in the habitable zone. Check out our guided tour, 360° visualization and poster! https://go.nasa.gov/3JQicba
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TRAPPIST-1e - Guided Tour | Exoplanet Travel Bureau – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

Just 40 light-years away from Earth, the seven rocky worlds of TRAPPIST-1 would allow you to planet hop, one by one!
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