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Artist’s impression of the cool red star and gas-giant planet NGTS-1b against the Milky Way (University of Warwick/Mark Garlick)

Hot Monster Planet; No Fountain of Youth; Sunscreen Snow on Exoplanet

November 3, 2017

Hot Monster Planet Found Orbiting Small Star British astronomers say they discovered a “monster” planet orbiting a tiny star, but, according to planet formation theory, the planet should not even exist. The theory suggests a planet of its size could not be formed around such a small star. Located about 600 light years from Earth, […]

February 8, 2016

Much has been written about the wide reaching impact of the “Little Ice Age,” a period of global cooling that lasted approximately from the mid-13th to the mid-19th centuries. Now, an international team of researchers say they have come across another extraordinary, extended period of cooling that took place in the northern hemisphere between 536 […]

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