My generation may be the last to be able to gaze upon a star-studded sky. One night in early 2017, from the terrace of a relative’s home in a tiny village in India, I was astonished and delighted to see the sky packed with stars. Many glowed dimly but steadily. A handful of them had […]
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In 2008, Hubble Telescope Observations detected Fomalhaut b, an exoplanet 25 light-years away from Earth. It was one of the first directly imaged exoplanets, and was considered a benchmark in search for exoplanets. Latest research published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) concludes that Fomalhaut is not an exoplanet at all but
In 2008, news was abuzz with the detection of a massive exoplanet just 25 light years away from Earth, practically in our cosmic backyard. While the features of neither the exoplanet, Fomalhaut b, nor its star, Fomalhaut, were extraordinary, this discovery was notable for two things that unfolded in its wake. First, it proved that