Using the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory, a team of astronomers is discovering evidence of another planet orbiting the planet “Proxima Centauri”. The discovery of a new planet orbiting the closest star to our sun Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, a team of astronomers have … Read more
Exoplanets come in many sizes and sometimes even unusual shapes, and the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered a rugby ball-shaped planet, pulled into that shape by intense gravitational forces, according to a digitaltrend report. The planet, called WASP-103b in the constellation Hercules, experiences epic tidal forces due to orbiting near its star … Read more
(MENAFN– Youm7) A study of astronomers from Rice University in Houston, Texas, revealed that long before the planets formed in the solar system, the sun had rings similar to those around Saturn, and may have stopped the growth of the planet, so it became this size and did not swell, and these rings were seen … Read more