Space Enthusiastics:Exploring Space with NASA

Embark on a thrilling journey through the cosmos as we delve into the fascinating world of exoplanets - celestial bodies orbiting stars beyond our own sun. Join us as we explore the latest breakthroughs in exoplanetary research, from the scorching hot Jupiters to potentially habitable worlds. Uncover the awe-inspiring diversity of these distant planets and the tantalizing possibility of finding extraterrestrial life. Get ready for a mind-blowing adventure through the vast expanse of the universe! Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab

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TOI 700 is a small, cool M dwarf star located around 100 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado. In 2020, scientists announced the discovery of the Earth-size, habitable-zone planet d, which is on a 37-day orbit, along with two other worlds. The innermost planet, TOI 700 b, is about 90% Earth’s size and orbits the star every 10 days. TOI 700 c is over 2.5 times bigger than Earth and completes an orbit every 16 days. The planets are probably tidally locked, which means they spin only once per orbit such that one side always faces the star, just as one side of the Moon is always turned toward Earth.

01955 Bennu is one of Earth’s closest planetary neighbors – an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper, and since late 2018, the place that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has called home. When OSIRIS-REx arrived on Dec. 3, 2018, it began wrapping Bennu in a complex web of observations. OSIRIS-REx departs Bennu on May 10, 2021, on a return voyage to Earth, bringing with it over 60 grams of sample collected from the asteroid. This narrated video presents the mission’s complete trajectory during its time at Bennu.

All monster black holes are not equal. Watch this video to see how they compare to each other and to our solar system. The black holes shown, which range from 100,000 to more than 60 billion times our Sun’s mass, are scaled according to the sizes of their shadows – a circular zone about twice the size of their event horizons. Only one of these colossal objects resides in our own galaxy, and it lies 26,000 light-years away. Smaller black holes are shown in bluish colors because their gas is expected to be hotter than that orbiting larger ones. Scientists think all of these objects shine most intensely in ultraviolet light.