Discovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70

12. 05 2022

Exoplanets

Survey of Orion Disks with ALMA (SODA)

09. 05 2022

Exoplanets

Discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting unusually massive star Mu2 Scorpii

This is an image of the system Mu2 Scorpii 615 light years away taken with the Very Large Telescope. In the middle is a massive star, whose brightness was lowered to allow us to see the exoplanet b in the circle. The other objects are just stars in the background. There are only about 20 directly imaged exoplanets so far.

04. 05 2022

Exoplanets

Three Jupiter-sized exoplanets discovered oribiting sun-like stars

Astronomers confirmed the existence of three exoplanets TOI-1820 b, TOI-2025 b, and TOI-2158 b. Their method also uncovered their masses, which gives scientists a better idea about their density and structure. All three are similar in size to Jupiter and orbit their stars on very tight orbits.

30. 04 2022

Exoplanets

Astronomers discovered 3 additional exoplanet orbiting nearby star TOI 500

Star TOI 500 is located 155 light years from the Solar system. There was already a known exoplanet orbiting it, now there are 3 more. The system now consists of 2 very close exoplanets and two more bit further (all of them are still closer to their star than Earth to Sun).