A transit is when the object being observed crosses in front of its star from our point of view here at Earth. That means the planet has to be in just …
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Identifying Flare Locations Through Exoplanet Transit Occultations – Astrobiology
As a planet transits in front of an ongoing flare the timing and geometry of the transit can be used to constrain the latitude and longitude of the …
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NASA Exoplanet Archive: Getting CUTE With New Data – Astrobiology
The archive has added a new dataset by NASA's Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) CubeSat. The mission is measuring near-ultraviolet …
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A rare Venus solar transit sheds light on exoplanet atmospheres – Space Daily
Analyzing the 2012 Venus Transit. The study relied on rare data from Venus's solar transit on June 5-6, 2012, the last event of its kind this century.
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A Gas Giant Exoplanet Has Been Discovered With Twice The Density of Earth – ScienceAlert
Transit data is a record of the way a star's light dims when an orbiting exoplanet passes in front of it. If we know how bright the star is, …
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Scientists discover possible exoplanet outside of our galaxy – Yahoo News
This method could allow scientists to locate exoplanets at greater distances than current optical light transit studies, according to NASA. Within the …
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