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Flying Space Toasters: Electrified Exoplanets Really Feel the Heat

4 Jun , 2013 by

Overheated and overinflated, hot Jupiters are some of the strangest extrasolar planets to be discovered by the Kepler mission… and they may be even more exotic than anyone ever thought. A new model proposed by Florida Gulf Coast University astronomer Dr. Derek Buzasi suggests that these worlds are intensely affected by electric currents that link them […]

Dust in the Wind

11 Jun , 2011 by

[/caption] The stellar wind, that is! This beautiful image, taken by NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) shows a vast ring of interstellar dust and gas being forced outwards by the wind and radiation from a massive star. The star, HR8281, is located in the center of the image, the topmost star in a small triangular […]

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