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Found 2 results for dwarf planet
Exoplanet transit

Hidden exoplanets could be revealed by echoing light

11 January 2018

Reflected light from a star’s flares may help us find otherwise invisible worlds. These exoplanets could be hit by powerful blasts, but may still host life
two maps of heat maps of twin plants side by side

Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other

14 June 2017

New observations reveal a rare binary planet system made of two gas giants four times as massive as Jupiter that likely formed in the breakup of a protostar 10 million years ago

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