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WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk

By |2025-08-27T13:44:24-04:00August 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day That yellow spot -- what is it? It's a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System's birth, some 4.5 billion years ago. Although we can't look into the past and [...]

Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP-43b

By |2024-05-03T09:09:18-04:00May 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day A mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every 0.8 Earth days. That puts it about 2 million kilometers (less than 1/25th the orbital distance of Mercury) from a small, cool sun. Still, on a dayside always facing its parent star, temperatures [...]

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