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exoplanets

Exoplanets

“An unnatural interest in astronomy”

Don Pollacco, a research astronomer at Queens University Belfast, came to Armagh Planetarium to give a fascinating talk on exoplanets in January 2011. Afterwards Dr Pollaco kindly chatted to me about his experiences. CJ: Thanks for a really interesting talk. So why did you get into astronomy? DP: I was Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 9 years5 years ago
Exoplanets

Exoplanet HAT-P-1b: weird, warm and fuzzy

The extra-solar planet HAT-P-1b has baffled astronomers since it was discovered in 2006. The planet is puffed up much larger than theory predicts. HAT-P-1 has a volume nearly twice than of Jupiter’s yet it contains only half Jupiter’s mass.   Most exoplanets so far discovered fall into the category of Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 9 years4 years ago
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ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy

Could HIP 13044 b be the strangest exoplanet yet found? We are getting used to the discoveries of bizarre exoplanets but newly-discovered world HIP 13044 b not only survived the cataclysm of its star swelling into a red giant, but it also originally came from another galaxy!   If you Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 9 years4 years ago
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COROT-7b: Exoplanet with a sky made of stone

About 490 light years from our planet in the constellation of Monoceros lies a G type star designated COROT-7. A little smaller and dimmer than our Sun, this star is circled by at least two planets, one of which, COROT-7b, is the most similar exoplanet to Earth yet discovered.   Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 9 years4 years ago
Exoplanets

Exoplanet HD 209458b: A planet that thinks it’s a comet

Some 150 light years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus lies the star HD 209458 and its planetary system. The star is almost a clone of our own Sun, but one its planets is completely unlike anything in our Solar System. The exoplanet HD 209458b has a mass more Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 9 years9 years ago

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