BREADS: Your Python toolkit for hunting distant worlds through direct imaging and spectroscopy. From raw telescope data to confirmed exoplanets in elegant, open-source code.

https://github.com/jruffio/breads

#Exoplanet #DirectImaging #Spectroscopy

MADYS unlocks the secrets of young stars and planets by harmonizing 21+ stellar evolution models with 250+ photometric filters for precise age and mass determination across the cosmos.

🔗 https://github.com/vsquicciarini/madys

#StellarAstrophysics #DirectImaging #YoungStars

Is Fomalhaut b a Real Exoplanet? How the ‘First Visible-Light Exoplanet’ Likely Vanished Fomalhaut b is now considered not to be a real exoplanet. Follow-up Hubble observations showed the object fading and expanding over time, behavior that matches an expanding dust cloud from a recent collision between two icy bodies in the Fomalhaut debris disk rather than a solid, planet-sized body. NASA has summarized the reversal, which updated the 2008 claim of the first visible-light exoplanet image around the nearby star Fomalhaut.

Remember the 'first visible-light exoplanet' Fomalhaut b? Turns out it was likely a short-lived dust cloud, not a world, caught by Hubble as it faded and spread. Were you following this saga? #DebrisDisk #DirectImaging #Exoplanets #FomalhautB #HubbleSpaceTelescope

Subaru Telescope Program Discovers Massive Planet and Brown Dwarf Subaru Telescope program discovers massive planet and brown dwarf; OASIS initiative finds distant objects advancing technology for ...

#Research #Astronomy #BrownDwarfs #DirectImaging […]

[Original post on nasaspacenews.com]

8/12 In August 2024, they found exactly what they hoped: a faint blob near Alpha Centauri A. "As a direct imager, you're very skeptical of anything you see. But this one just popped out so clearly," says PhD student Aniket Sanghi.
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Infrared image of the Beta Pictoris planetary system. The image shows the star's dusty debris disk and the giant planet Beta Pictoris b at two different positions in its orbit (October 2003 & November 2009), captured by the European Southern Observatory telescopes. The planet's orbit is roughly the size of Saturn's orbit around our Sun.

Astronomy Picture from 03/07/2010

A Giant Planet for Beta Pic

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100703.html


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