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Research out of the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy ( IfA) is the focus of an animated children’s educational YouTube video, but viewer beware, you may end with a really catchy tune stuck in your head. In January, IfA astronomers announced that they discovered a rocky planet known as a “Super-Earth TOI 561b” using the W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes on Maunakea. The planet orbits the star TESS Object of Interest ( TOI) 561, and has sparked interest around the world. “Kids Learning Tube” recently posted a YouTube video explaining the Super-Earth TOI 561b and it received more than 100,000 views in less than a week. One of the scenes in the video shows a picture of the face of ....
Copy to Clipboard An artist s illustration of TOI-561 (WM Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko) One of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy hosts an unusually hot and rocky “Super-Earth” planet. Known as TOI-561b, the planet orbits the star TESS Object of Interest (TOI) 561, named for the ongoing NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS planet-hunting mission. The planet is unlike any other Super-Earth found to date, according to scientists. It is about 50% larger than Earth but requires less than half a day to orbit its star. According to experts, for every day on Earth, this planet orbits its star twice. ....
Posted: Jan 11, 2021 Photo 2, caption and credit in text University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers Using W. M. Keck Observatory Discover Ancient Magma World Orbiting a Chemically Unusual Star Maunakea, Hawaii - “They should have sent a poet,” says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral galaxy. Almost all of the planets discovered to date (including the solar system planets) are confined to the plane of the Milky Way, unable to glimpse such a sweeping vista of our galaxy. However, astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have discovered a rocky planet with a different kind of view. ....