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Orbital Migration in Process: NEID Discovers a Giant Exoplanet in a Highly Disturbed Orbit

Introduction Today, the NEID Science Team announced the discovery of the exoplanet TIC 241249530b, a giant exoplanet with some truly remarkable properties.  The planet follows an oblong, highly eccentric orbit around its star; if we compare it to objects in … Continue reading

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NEID Validates a Venus-like Exoplanet

Despite challenges caused by a global pandemic, the NEID team has adapted, and is already putting out important new exoplanet science.  Much of the early science efforts with NEID have focused on detailed characterization of new exoplanets discovered by the … Continue reading

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NEID sees its first light on 51 Peg!

NEID sees its first light on 51 Pegasi, the host star around which Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet to orbit a solar type star in 1995!   See associated coverage – https://aasnova.org/2020/01/09/aas-235-day-4/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7571 https://www.nationalastro.org/news/neid-exoplanet-instrument-sees-first-light/https://exoplanets.psu.edu/neid-spectrograph-sees-first-light/ https://exoplanets.psu.edu/neid-spectrograph-sees-first-light/ https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/planet-discovery-machine-atop-kitt-peak-sees-first-light … Continue reading

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NEID Featured on the Many Worlds Blog

As part of NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science (NExSS), science journalist Marc Kaufman documents new and interesting research related to NASA’s various exoplanet science programs on the Many Worlds blog.  His latest post features NEID, and its role in … Continue reading

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