[STScI] Scientists leading the astronomy community’s most ambitious effort to study rocky planets outside of our solar system have reached a major milestone.
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Building A Roadmap For Hubble Science Into The 2030s
Hubble remains an indispensable resource for the astronomy and planetary science community as it approaches the end of its fourth decade in operations. The dynamic astronomical landscape, with facilities with […]
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Detecting Exomoons In Free-Floating-Planet Events From Space-based Microlensing Surveys
When a planet is ejected from its star-planet system due to dynamical interactions, its satellite may remain gravitationally bound to the planet.
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Combining Photometry and Astrometry to Improve Orbit Retrieval of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Future missions like Roman, HabEx, and LUVOIR will directly image exoplanets in reflected light. While current near infrared direct imaging searches are only sensitive to young, self-luminous planets whose brightness […]