by Tanja Schumann | Mar 18, 2025 | Highlights EN, Press releases
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Currently, there are two main methods by which exoplanets are discovered: The transit method looks for planets by examining the light from stars for brief fluctuations in light. The light fluctuates when an exoplanet passes by...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 18, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
The 245 light-years distant Kepler-16b is the first binary star planet found with the radial velocity method. For a long time it was questionable whether there can be planets around binary stars at all. The center of this triple system is Kepler-16A, a K-type star...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 17, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope made an exciting discovery on the exoplanet K2-18b. Further evidence of a vast ocean and even the possible trace of a substance produced only by organisms on Earth was found. K2-18 b is an...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 16, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
With the help of ESA’s CHEOPS mission, a team led by James Jenkins of the University of Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile has tracked down the exoplanet LTT9779 b. According to the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, it reflects 80 per cent of the light from its...
by Tanja Schumann | Jan 30, 2025 | Press releases
Lia Bernabò, a PhD student at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Szílard Csizmadia’s research group, and her colleagues have analysed observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b, including those obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope, to investigate tidal...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Nov 26, 2024 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), October 2024 Orbiting the star HD 110067, slightly over 100 light years from here, six planets were discovered using the space telescopes TESS and CHEOPS (Luque et al, nature 2023). The exceptional thing are the orbital periods of these...
