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This is the first time a Jupiter-like planet that survived the death throes of its parent star has been confirmed.

Researchers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope to analyse the three observed dust rings around the three stars.

Science|How Many Moon Craters Are Named for Women? Fewer Than You’d Guess. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/science/moon-craters-women.html A drawing of the lunar crater Resnik by Bettina Forget, an artist and researcher at Concordia University in Montreal. The crater is named for Judith Resnik, an astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger disaster.Credit...Bettina Forget Sections How Many Moon Craters Are Named for Women? Fewer Than You’d Guess. By drawing the small number of lunar craters named for women, an artist hopes to highlight women’s contributions to the sciences. A...

Close A planetary system 897 light-years away from Earth consists of two planets that orbit a star, rotating backwards. It used to be presumed that the equator of a spinning star needs to line up with the orbital plane of its planets due to the fact that the stars and planets are both ultimately growing from the same spinning molecular cloud. As a result, the star needs to spin in the same direction that the planets are orbiting. However, the K2-290 system is not following this rule. Specifically, the K2-290 system comprises three stars, and it has a pair of planets that orbit the main star, ...

It challenges theories about how planets form and change over time