![]() ssc2020-12a 06.22.20 HIP 67522 b: The Youngest Known Hot JupiterThis artwork illustrates the newly-discovered the exoplanet HIP 67522 b, which appears to be the youngest hot Jupiter... view image |
![]() ssc2020-04b 01.28.20 Kelt-9b: The Hottest Hot Jupiter (Tall)This artist's concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. It is the hottest gas giant planet discove... view image |
![]() ssc2020-04a 01.28.20 Kelt-9b: The Hottest Hot Jupiter (Wide)This artist's concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. It is the hottest gas giant planet discove... view image |
![]() ssc2019-14c 08.19.19 Dark World (Full)This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwar... view image |
![]() ssc2019-12a 07.02.19 NASA's Great Observatories Probe New Class of ExoplanetThis artist's illustration shows the theoretical internal structure of the exoplanet GJ 3470 b. It is unlike any plan... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04b2 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Feb. 2018 (unannotated)This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the pla... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04b1 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Feb. 2018This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the pla... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04d 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Compared to Jovian Moons and Inner Solar System - Feb. 2018All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercu... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04a 02.05.18 Illustration of TRAPPIST-1 Planets as of Feb. 2018This illustration shows the seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1. The image does not show the planets' orbits to sc... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04c 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Data - Feb. 2018This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, dist... view image |
![]() ssc2018-03a 01.22.18 "Wrong-way" Winds on CoRoT-2bThis illustration depicts the strange case of the backwards hotspot researchers have found on the hot exoplanet known... view image |
![]() ssc2017-16a 11.01.17 Polluted White DwarfThis artist's concept shows an exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a polluted white dwarf. view image |
![]() ssc2017-01i 02.22.17 The Discovery of TRAPPIST-1 PlanetsThe first observations of the TRAPPIST-1 system reported in 2016 revealed three planets orbiting a small, red-dwarf s... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01g 02.22.17 TRAPPIST-1 Comparison to Solar System and Jovian MoonsAll seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercu... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01d 02.22.17 Transit Illustration of TRAPPIST-1This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional, incre... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01c 02.22.17 Surface of TRAPPIST-1fImagine standing on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. This artist's concept is one interpretation of what it ... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01a 02.22.17 TRAPPIST-1 Planet LineupThis artist's conception shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about thei... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01f 02.22.17 TRAPPIST-1 Statistics TableThis chart shows, on the top row, artist conceptions of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, d... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01b 02.21.17 Abstract Concept of TRAPPIST-1 SystemThe TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. This artist's concept appeared on... view image |
![]() sig15-016 12.14.15 Artist's Impression of "Hot Jupiter" ExoplanetsThis image shows an artist's impression of the 10 hot Jupiter exoplanets studied using the Hubble and Spitzer space t... view image |
![]() ssc2015-02c 07.30.15 Location of Nearest Rocky Exoplanet KnownThis sky map shows the location of the star HD 219134, host to the nearest confirmed rocky planet found to date outsi... view image |
![]() ssc2015-02a 07.30.15 Hot, Rocky WorldThis artist's rendition shows one possible appearance for the planet HD 219134b, the nearest rocky exoplanet found to... view image |
![]() ssc2015-02d 07.30.15 Little Black Spot on the Star TodayThis artist's conception shows the silhouette of a rocky planet, dubbed HD 219134b, as it passes in front of its star... view image |
![]() sig15-009 06.25.15 Hypothetical 'Rejuvenated' PlanetsThis artist's concept shows a hypothetical "rejuvenated" planet -- a gas giant that has reclaimed its youthful infrar... view image |
![]() sig15-007 05.05.15 Volcanic Activity on Super Earth 55 Cancri eThis artists impression of super-Earth 55 Cancri e shows a hot partially-molten surface of the planet before and afte... view image |
![]() sig15-004 04.14.15 Infographic: Finding Planets With MicrolensingThis infographic explains how NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can be used in tandem with a telescope on the ground to ... view image |
![]() sig15-006 04.14.15 Map of Exoplanets Found in Our GalaxyAstronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light-years from Earth, c... view image |
![]() ssc2014-07b 09.24.14 A Sunny Outlook for 'Weather' on ExoplanetsScientists were excited to discover clear skies on a relatively small planet, about the size of Neptune, using the co... view image |
![]() ssc2014-07a 09.24.14 Seeing Starlight Through a Planet's RimA Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its star in this artist's depiction. Such... view image |
![]() ssc2014-07b1 09.24.14 A Sunny Outlook for 'Weather' on ExoplanetsScientists were excited to discover clear skies on a relatively small planet, about the size of Neptune, using the co... view image |
![]() sig14-001 01.07.14 This Just In: Storms Expected on Brown DwarfsThis artist's concept shows what the weather might look like on cool star-like bodies known as brown dwarfs. view image |
![]() ssc2013-08a 09.30.13 Partially Cloudy Skies on Kepler-7bKepler-7b which is 1.5 times the radius of Jupiter is the first exoplanet to have its clouds mapped. view image |
![]() ssc2012-11a 07.18.12 Exoplanet is Extremely Hot and Incredibly Close (Artist's Concept)Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds th... view image |
![]() ssc2012-07d 05.08.12 Measuring Infrared BrightnessThis graphic illuminates the process by which astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have for the first tim... view image |
![]() ssc2011-08a 10.19.11 It's Raining CometsThis artist's conception illustrates a storm of comets around a star near our own, called Eta Corvi. view image |
![]() sig11-013 09.26.11 Earth and Super-EarthThis artists concept contrasts our familiar Earth with the exceptionally strange planet known as 55 Cancri e. While i... view image |
![]() sig11-004 05.23.11 Kepler-10 Stellar Family PortraitThis artist's conception depicts the Kepler-10 star system, located about 560 light-years away near the Cygnus and Ly... view image |
![]() ssc2010-10b 12.08.10 Hot, Carbon-Rich PlanetThis artist's concept shows the searing-hot gas planet WASP-12b (orange orb) and its star. view image |
![]() ssc2010-08b 10.19.10 Planetary Hot Spot Not Under the Glare of StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found that the hottest part of a distant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, is no... view image |
![]() ssc2010-05b 04.21.10 Exotic ExoplanetAn unusual, methane-free world is partially eclipsed by its star in this artist's concept. view image |