A Star’s Tiny Wobble Just Revealed a Massive Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...
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How to spot fake images of the 'Blood Worm Moon' total lunar eclipse
The moon will turn blood red overnight on Thursday and Friday during the 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse. How can you tell ...
'Gaia’s cosmic surprise': Giant planet found where it shouldn’t exist
Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...
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Saying Farewell to the Gaia Mission, Which Mapped the Milky Way
The technique, it’s technically called astrometry, [that] is the technical name for it. And if you go right now and you look in, like, any exoplanet catalog, and you sort by detection method ...
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This asteroid won’t destroy Earth. But a Baltimore-run telescope is watching.
The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more ...
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Scientists Just Found a Hidden Planet That’s Absolutely Massive
Unlike the radial velocity method used by NEID, Gaia uses a technique known as astrometry to detect a star’s motion. This technique involves measuring the subtle motion of a star as it is tugged by ...
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astrometry-net
The complete integrated solution for all of your astronomical imaging needs.
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Qing-Yu Peng
Sino-French Joint Laboratory for Astrometry, Dynamics and Space Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China ...