Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
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Gaia was right. It did find a planet.
The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...
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High-precision NEID spectrograph helps confirm first Gaia astrometric planet discovery
With these powerful instruments the team conducted follow-up observations of 28 star systems with planet candidates identified by Gaia. They found that of the 28 candidate systems 21 were false ...
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High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
Gaia-4b is also the first planet detected by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft using the astrometric technique. NEID is a high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph that is designed to ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a relatively low-mass star has been discovered, thanks to the way the planet's gravity drags its star around ...
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Gaia Uncovers Hidden Worlds: A Massive Planet and a Brown Dwarf Detected Through Star Wobbles
Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...