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Darkest exoplanet spotted by astronomers - BBC News

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Researchers spot the darkest known alien world, TrES-2b - describing it as

Scientists’ Good News: Earth May Survive Sun’s Demise in 5 Billion...

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In an accompanying commentary, Jonathan Fortney of NASA's Ames Research Center in California wrote, “This system allows us to start ...

Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney awarded Sloan Research ...

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· The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Jonathan Fortney, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. The prestigious two-year fellowship includes a grant of $50,000 to support Fortney's research, which focuses on understanding the atmospheres and internal structures of planets.

Jupiter's melting heart sheds light on mysterious exoplanet

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"It's a really important piece of the puzzle of trying to figure out what's going on inside giant planets," said Jonathan Fortney, a planetary scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz who was not affiliated with the research. Conventional planetary formation theory has modeled Jupiter as a set of neat ...
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