标签: exoplanet

毕宿一: 有行星的恒星

2024年1月26日 Epsilon Tauri: Star with Planet Image Credit & Copyright: Reg Pratt Explanation: Epsilon Tauri lies 146 light-years away. A K-type red giant star, epsilon Tau is cooler than the Sun, but with about 13 times the solar radius it has nearly 100 times the solar luminosity. A member of the Hyades open star cluster the giant star is known by the pro...

在遥远的系外行星发现了甲烷

2023年9月20日 Methane Discovered on Distant Exoplanet Illustration Credit: Ahmad Jabakenji (ASU Lebanon, North Star Space Art); Data: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Explanation: Where else might life exist? One of humanity’s great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward in 2019 with the discovery of a signific...

恒星吞噬行星

2023年6月6日 Star Eats Planet Illustrative Video Credit: K. Miller & R. Hurt (Caltech, IPAC) Explanation: It’s the end of a world as we know it. Specifically, the Sun-like star ZTF SLRN-2020 was seen eating one of its own planets. Although many a planet eventually dies by spiraling into their central star, the 2020 event, involving a Jupiter-like planet, w...

北落师门的尘埃碎片盘

2023年5月11日 Fomalhaut’s Dusty Debris Disk Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Processing: András Gáspár (Univ. of Arizona), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Science: A. Gáspár (Univ. of Arizona) et al. Explanation: Fomalhaut is a bright star, a 25 light-year voyage from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation Piscis Austrinus. Astronomers first noticed Fomalh...

LHS 475 b: 地球尺寸的系外行星

2023年1月24日 LHS 475 b: Earth-Sized Exoplanet Illustration Credit: DeepAI’s Fantasy World Generator Explanation: If you could stand on exoplanet LHS 475 b, what might you see? No one knows for sure but pictured here is an interesting guess made by an Earth-based artificial intelligence (AI) engine. The existence of the exoplanet was indicated in data tak...

50光年远的飞马51星

2021年10月9日 50 Light-years to 51 Pegasi Image Credit & Copyright: Josselin Desmars Explanation: It’s only 50 light-years to 51 Pegasi. That star’s position is indicated in this snapshot from August, taken on a hazy night with mostly brighter stars visible above the dome at Observatoire de Haute-Provence in France. Twenty-six years ago, in Oct...