Astronomers Study a Star’s Environment from Light Curves

Using the ALMA telescopes, astronomers discovered a circumstellar disk around the star EPIC 204278916 and offer several explanations for the dips including that they are caused by clumps of material in the warped inner portion of the disk. There are now about 2700 confirmed exoplanets discovered by transiting techniques including those used with the Kepler […]
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