Penn State: A Young Sub-Neptune-Sized Planet Sheds Light Onto How Planets Form and Evolve
August 05, 2020
August 05, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Aug. 5 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news:
The detailed characterization of a young planet slightly smaller than Neptune provides insight into how such planets form and evolve. Astronomers characterized the planet's mass, radius, and the tilt of its orbit using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in . . .
The detailed characterization of a young planet slightly smaller than Neptune provides insight into how such planets form and evolve. Astronomers characterized the planet's mass, radius, and the tilt of its orbit using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in . . .