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    Where did the Hot Neptunes go? A Shrinking Planet holds the answer

    December 16, 2018, Categories  Astronomy/Space


    This artist’s illustration shows a giant cloud of hydrogen streaming off a warm, Neptune-sized planet just 97 light-years from Earth. The exoplanet is tiny compared to its star, a red dwarf named GJ 3470. The star’s intense radiation is heating the hydrogen in the planet’s upper atmosphere to a point where it escapes into space. The alien world is losing hydrogen at a rate 100 times faster than a previously observed warm Neptune whose atmosphere is also evaporating away.
    Credit: © Crédit NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI)

    Astronomers explain the rarity of the hot Neptunes by their evaporation which transforms them into super-Earths...

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    A Blue, Neptune-size Exoplanet around a Red Dwarf star

    November 28, 2015, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Artists impression of GJ 3470b and its host star. Image credit: NAOJ.

    Artists impression of GJ 3470b and its host star. Image credit: NAOJ.

    A team of astronomers have used the LCOGT network to detect light scattered by tiny particles (called Rayleigh scattering), through the atmosphere of a Neptune-size transiting exoplanet. This suggests a blue sky on this world which is only 100 light years away from us.

    When the orbit of an exoplanet is aligned just right for transits to occur, astronomers can measure the planet’s size at different wavelengths in order to generate a spectrum of its atmosphere >> reveals substances in the planet’s atmosphere, thus composition. This measurement is most often performed using infrared light, where the planet is brightest and most easily observed...

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