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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The Small Mars Problem

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Figure 1. All planets and dwarf planets orbiting within 6 astronomical units (AU) of our Sun, shown at their relative diameters. -----...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Jupiter Re-Ascending

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Figure 1. Les Grands Zig-zags . The assembly and migration of Jupiter and Saturn through the primordial Solar nebula, according to a sc...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Evolutionary Twist

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Figure 1. The Sun-like star WASP-47 hosts a transiting Hot Jupiter flanked by two low-mass planets, and all three have periods short...
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This blog feeds and feeds on my fascination with extrasolar planets. Although I have no graduate training in astronomy, I'm a proficient reader and researcher, with a PhD in English to prove it. I've worked for many years as a writer and editor of scientific, technical, and medical articles. You can usually trust me to admit it when I don't know what I'm talking about.
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