Wednesday 14 November 2018

Cold Super-Earth found orbiting closest single star to Sun

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The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth -- a so-called super-Earth. One of the largest observing campaigns to date using data from a world-wide array of telescopes has revealed this frozen, dimly lit world. The newly discovered planet is the second-closest known exoplanet to the Earth. Barnard's star is the fastest moving star in the night sky.
via Science Daily
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Gravitational waves from a merged hyper-massive neutron star

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For the first time astronomers have detected gravitational waves from a merged, hyper-massive neutron star.
via Science Daily
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