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A dwarf star birthed a giant planet

The Jerusalem Post on MSN · 1h

Unexpected giant: Saturn-mass planet found orbiting tiny red dwarf

As part of a survey seeking giant planets around low-mass stars, researchers examined more than 91,000 red dwarf stars and found the planet TOI-6894b, which has only half the mass of Saturn."We analyzed observations of more than 91,

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Tiny star hosts giant surprise: Saturn-sized planet found orbiting red dwarf star

The giant planet, named TOI-6894b, was spotted using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS. The work was led by Dr Edward Bryant of UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. His team was searching for big planets around small stars.

ScienceAlert on MSN · 1d

A Super-Tiny Star Gave Birth to a Giant Planet And We Don't Know How

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars were thought to be incapable of producing giant planets. But there, in its orbit, appears to be unmistakable evidence of an absolute unit: a gas giant around the size of Saturn.

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New ICE deportation operation and possible dwarf planet discovery: Morning Rundown

A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Donald Trump’s focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement.

Space.com on MSN6d

Scientists found a possible new dwarf planet — it could spell bad news for Planet 9 fans

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

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Pluto's 'extreme cousin' is a dwarf planet found at the far reaches of our solar system

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

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Search for elusive "Planet Nine" takes surprising twist, astronomers say

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

ATLANTIC SKIES: A new dwarf planet and the search for Planet Nine

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

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Scientists Say They’ve Found a Dwarf Planet Very Far From the Sun

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN7d

Astronomers Discover a Possible Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Neptune, Where There Should Have Only Been Empty Space

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

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Potential discovery of new dwarf planet adds wrinkle to Planet Nine theory

The TNO, which are described as minor planets that orbit the sun at a greater distance than Neptune, were found on the edge ...

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Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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