College of Letters & Science
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.
Read the article in MIT Technology Review by graduate student Eshan Raul (Astronomy).
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 …
By Ángel F. Adames Corraliza
