Exoplanets at the CfA

Planets Form in Organic Soups with Different Ingredients
Spotted: An Exoplanet with the Potential to Form Moons
A Giant, Sizzling Planet May be Orbiting the Star Vega
High Schoolers Discover Four Exoplanets Through Harvard & Smithsonian Mentorship Program
ALMA Captures Stirred-Up Planet Factory

ALMA image of the planet-forming disk around the young star RU Lup.
TESS’s first habitable zone earth sized planet, TOI-700 d!

A team of scientists led by Joey Rodriguez requested follow-up observations with Spitzer to confirm TOI 700 d.
Release of the first three years of HARPS-N solar spectra in celebration of five years of solar telescope operation

The HARPS-N Solar Telescope has been observing the Sun as a distant, point-like star every clear day at 5-minute cadence
A Rare Look at the Surface of a Rocky Exoplanet

This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star.
Newly-Discovered Rocky Exoplanet Has Three Red Suns

Astronomers using NASA’s TESS Satellite have discovered a terrestrial planet orbiting a star in the triple-star system LTT 1445.
TESS Data May Already Hold a Clue to The Mysterious Planet Nine

The hypothesized Planet Nine has an expected magnitude of 19 < V < 24 raising the possibility that TESS could discover it!
Researchers Arrive at Extreme Solar Systems IV Meeting

This semi-annual meeting covers all aspects of research on exoplanets.

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