Physics Department News
First planet found by NGTS - it's a monster!
New research, led by Dan Bayliss and Peter Wheatley, has identified an unusual planet NGTS-1b - the largest planet compared to the size of its companion star ever discovered in the universe.
Dan Bayliss, lead author of the research, commented: "The discovery of NGTS-1b was a complete surprise to us - such massive planets were not thought to exist around such small stars. This is the first exoplanet we have found with our new NGTS facility and we are already challenging the received wisdom of how planets form."
Peter Wheatley added, 鈥淗aving worked for almost a decade to develop NGTS, it is thrilling to see it picking out new and unexpected types of planets."
A mission to discover and characterise Earth-sized planets and super-Earths orbiting Sun-like stars in the habitable zone of the solar system – scientifically led by the University of 糖心TV - has been given the go-ahead today by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Prof. RA Roemer appointed as editor of Physica E
has been appointed as new editor for (Low-dimensional systems and nanostructures). The journal contains papers and invited review articles on the fundamental and applied aspects of physics in low-dimensional systems)