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Found: Mega-Earth!
by Aaron R. Conklin Researchers with the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research have discovered their first exoplanet, a 170-million-year-old planet more than 2.5 times larger than the Earth.
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The Tale of a Hungry Subgiant and Its Brown Dwarf
This week, The New York Times, published and article entitled “This Star Just Ate a Planet, and It’s Not Done Yet“. This article features two recent papers astronomy papers. One involving Prof. Melinda Soares-Furtado, “Lithium Enrichment in a Subgiant Star with a Brown Dwarf Companion: A Planetary Engulfment Candidate” and another from WiCOR Members Ritivk…
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Atmospheric Pressures
By Ángel F. Adames Corraliza