Northwestern team’s physics-based virtual telescope raises exoplanet sensitivity up to 15-fold in James Webb images Graduate researcher Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez and his team at Northwestern University’s astronomy department developed a method called “FLIP (Physics-based Learning for Imaging Planets),” which models how…
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Astronomers have developed a new technique to identify small planets hidden in protoplanetary disks. Cambridge, MA – Astronomers agree that planets are born in protoplanetary disks — rings of dust and gas that surround young, newborn stars. While hundreds of these disks…
Everything you’ve ever seen or experienced on Earth was once a nebulous collection of floating gas and dust. Science is starting to understand how those particles came to take the forms you recognize today, teaching us about Earth’s primordial history…
New analysis of James Webb Space Telescope observations points to a reflective cloudy sky on TOI-561 b A rocky lava planet once thought to be too extreme to have an atmosphere appears to be wrapped in one with a reflective…
The Explorer Class introduces the extraordinary people who make possible some of NASA's, and humanity's, most ambitious and technically demanding missions. Caltech astronomer Dimitri Mawet reflects on how JPL helped turn his unconventional idea into a technology that could potentially…
"What's exciting is that we're showing how computation can help overcome limitations of the telescope itself," Bouman continues. "By combining a physical model of the instrument with optimization techniques from machine learning, we have been able to remove starlight much…
Earth’s formation was a messy process. It all happened about 4.5 billion years ago, in our young chaotic Solar System. Rocky planetesimals were whizzing around in the Solar System back then, and Earth formed as more of these objects collided and…
Water is crucial for life to flourish, which is why it's something scientists search for first on other planets – but can we really be sure what water looks like in alien environments? In a new study published in Communications Chemistry,…
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