Massive COCONUTS Exoplanet Discovery Led by University of Hawaii Grad Student
July 29, 2021
July 29, 2021
HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 29 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets - planets beyond our solar system - but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to see with existing telescopes. A University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) graduate student has beaten the odds and discovered a directly imaged exoplanet, and it's the closest one to Earth ever found, at a distan . . .
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets - planets beyond our solar system - but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to see with existing telescopes. A University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) graduate student has beaten the odds and discovered a directly imaged exoplanet, and it's the closest one to Earth ever found, at a distan . . .