Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
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Gaia was right. It did find a planet.
The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...
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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data
Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...
Scans of seemingly empty space reveal black holes not far from earth
If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...