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Astronomers using the Keck Observatory have measured the spins of distant giant planets and brown dwarfs, finding that the planets rotate faster than more massive brown dwarfs when mass and other factors are accounted for.

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A recent challenge to the existence of dark energy has been resolved, with astronomers confirming that the universe continues to expand at an accelerating rate. Researchers at the University of Southampton reexamined supernova data and found no flaws in the standard measurements.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover around 100000 previously unknown exoplanets. This would mark a major increase from the nearly 6300 worlds identified so far. The mission will survey distant regions of the Milky Way using transit and microlensing methods.

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Moons orbiting rogue planets could maintain liquid water oceans for up to 4.3 billion years through tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. Researchers from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics reached this conclusion in a new study.

 

 

 

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