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Tipoffs for Boulder, Colorado (Federal Agencies) Newsletter for Tuesday March 09, 2021 ( 1 items )  

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: A Giant, Sizzling Planet May Be Orbiting the Star Vega
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 9 (TNSJou) -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The research, published this month in The Astronomical Journal, was led by Spencer Hurt, an astronomy undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hurt conducted the study during a 2019 summer research fellowship at the Ce  more