Marcel-Jan Krijgsman · @MarcelJan
77 followers · 549 posts · Server mastodon.nlAnd #tess #bepicolumbo #CHEOPS #MiniNeptune #Rosetta #Philae #Comet67P #JUICE #EuropaClipper #JPL #Cassini #Zhurong #Tianwen #DART #OSIRISREx #CometInterceptor
#cometinterceptor #osirisrex #dart #Tianwen #Zhurong #cassini #jpl #europaclipper #juice #comet67p #philae #rosetta #minineptune #cheops #bepicolumbo #tess
· @NetMassimo
93 followers · 1646 posts · Server mastodon.social#astronomy #MiniNeptune Two articles published in "The Astronomical Journal" report studies on as many #exoplanets of the mini-Neptune type that are losing their atmosphere.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2022/02/06/an-atmosphere-loss-detected-from-two-mini-neptunes/
#astronomy #minineptune #exoplanets
· @NetMassimo
93 followers · 1646 posts · Server mastodon.social#astronomy #SubNeptune #MiniNeptune #SuperEarths An article published in "The Astronomical Journal" reports a study on the scarcity of #exoplanets with a radius between 1.5 and 2 times the Earth's.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2021/05/19/new-confirmations-that-sub-neptune-planets-can-transform-into-super-earths/
#astronomy #SubNeptune #minineptune #SuperEarths #exoplanets
· @NetMassimo
93 followers · 1646 posts · Server mastodon.social#astronomy #exoplanets #TESS #SuperEarth #MiniNeptune An article published in the journal "Nature Astronomy" reports the discovery of three exoplanets in the system of the red dwarf indicated in the research as TOI (Tess Object of Interest) 270 because it was studied using NASA's TESS space telescope. https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/07/30/three-interesting-exoplanets-discovered-in-the-system-of-the-red-dwarf-toi-270
#astronomy #exoplanets #tess #superearth #minineptune
· @NetMassimo
93 followers · 1646 posts · Server mastodon.social#astronomy #exoplanets #MiniNeptune #Hubble #Spitzer NASA used the Hubble e Spitzer space telescopes to study the composition of the atmosphere of Gliese 3470 b, a mini-Neptune that orbits very close to its star, which is a red dwarf but still heats it up to temperatures that are estimated on the surface between 700 and 900 Kelvin. https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/07/04/a-study-of-the-atmosphere-of-the-exoplanet-gliese-3470-b
#astronomy #exoplanets #minineptune #hubble #spitzer
· @NetMassimo
93 followers · 1646 posts · Server mastodon.social#astronomy #exoplanets #MiniNeptune #NeptunianDesert An article published in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" reports the discovery of an exoplanet belonging to the mini-Neptune class in an orbit close to its star, where a planet of that type should not exist, so much that it's called Neptunian Desert. https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/05/31/the-exoplanet-ngts-4b-found-in-an-area-where-it-shouldnt-exist
#astronomy #exoplanets #minineptune #neptuniandesert