Webb Can Detect Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs, And Maybe Even See Signs of Life
Updated: 2022-10-27 01:40:50
, Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Posted on October 26, 2022 October 26, 2022 by Laurence Tognetti Webb Can Detect Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs , And Maybe Even See Signs of Life In a recent study accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society an international team of researchers led by Texas A M University investigate how the James Webb Space Telescope JWST can detect a variety of exoplanets orbiting the nearest 15 white dwarfs to Earth using its Mid-Infrared Instrument MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrograph MRS This study holds the potential to expand our knowledge of exoplanets , their planetary compositions , and if they can support . life A white dwarf is an incredibly dense star about
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous , as this image of the HerbigâHaro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts . Posted on October 25, 2022 October 25, 2022 by Carolyn Collins Petersen Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery When we look at images of star birth regions , they look both placid and active at the same time . That’s nowhere more true than in a stellar nursery associated with a so-called Herbig-Haro” object . A recent image from Hubble Space Telescope zeroed in on two called HH 1” and HH 2” . It looked at the turbulence associated with a nearby newborn star . system These two glowing clouds of gas and dust