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exoplanets

A rocky planet and a smaller rocky moon sit on a black background with dark red streaks. The planet in the foreground has a cratered surface and has patches of red, green, gray, and blue rocks. The smaller grayish brown rocky moon in the background is between 10 and 11 o’clock relative to the planet.
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To Make a Big Moon, Start with a Small Planet

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 February 202210 February 2022

Why is our Moon so massive compared with Earth, and how might that configuration happen elsewhere?

Two blocky telescope domes sit on snowy ground, and the band of the Milky Way arcs across the sky. The sky shades from navy at the top to green and orange at the horizon and is studded with stars.
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Five Reasons Geoscience Should Care About Astronomy’s New Road Map

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 5 November 202128 March 2023

The latest road map to U.S. astronomy’s next decade recommends a smaller space telescope, ground-based facilities, and an institutional effort to create an inclusive and equitable field.

A bright orange ring of dust surrounds a fuzzy orange center that hides the central star of the PDS 70 system. Sitting between the central star and the planet-forming dust disk is a small, bright orange dot that is the young planet PDS 70 c.
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Where Moons Are Made

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 4 August 202126 April 2022

The young, growing planet PDS 70 c has enough material swirling around it to make at least three Moon-sized moons.

A yellow and orange star in the center of the image. A vertical line through the center of the star indicates the star’s spin axis, and two white arrows indicate that the star rotates clockwise. An exoplanet transits the star as a dark circle. Its orbit cuts across the star’s surface as a white line with arrows indicating that it moves from top to bottom.
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Peculiar Planets Prefer Perpendicular Paths

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 29 July 202128 September 2021

Some exoplanets orbit their stars from pole to pole instead of across the equator. Why do they do that?

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting its much brighter star.
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Oddballs of the Exoplanet Realm

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 26 July 202125 October 2021

The list of planets in other star systems includes zombies, hot giants, puffballs, and even a few Tatooines. Zowie!

An artist’s rendering shows the seven small rocky worlds of the TRAPPIST-1 system in orbit around an M dwarf star.
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Unveiling the Next Exoplanet Act

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 26 July 202114 April 2022

In August, Eos looks at what the first round of observations with the James Webb Space Telescope might reveal about faraway worlds.

Illustration of a small, mottled, cold exoplanet, with its host star in the background.
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Exoplanets in the Shadows

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 26 July 202125 October 2021

The bright clutter of individual discoveries can overshadow some fascinating research, from necroplanetology to rogue planets to the intimacy of alphanumeric nomenclature.

A close-up view of the grid of hexagonal golden mirrors that make up the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Overture to Exoplanets

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 26 July 202124 October 2022

The curtain is about to rise on the James Webb Space Telescope. Let’s see what’s in store for its opening act.

Illustration of exoplanet Kepler-1649 c orbiting its host red dwarf star
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The Forecast for Exoplanets is Cloudy but Bright

by Kate Evans 26 July 202126 April 2022

Clouds make climate modeling on Earth difficult. Identifying—and even defining—atmospheric phenomena on other planets is the next big exoplanet challenge.

Earth with stars in the background.
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Thousands of Stars View Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 22 July 202110 January 2023

Researchers have identified more than 2,000 stars whose past, present, or future vantage points afford a view of Earth passing directly in front of the Sun, a geometry useful for pinpointing planets.

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