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In our solar system, the largest planets are dominated by the gas giants located in the outer solar system. And in exoplanetary systems, large planets seem to be the norm based on our improving detection capabilities. One reason may be due to the fact that the larger planets have more mass and can accrete gas in disks which ultimately form planetary systems. This week, we welcome Sivan Ginzburg, a Postdoctoral Researcher and 51 Pegasi b Fellow working in theoretical #astrophysics from the Department of Astronomy at #Berkeley (@ucberkeley). He also has research interests in planetary formation and evolution. Please join us TODAY, Friday 31 May 2019, from 12-1 PM in @UCLA ’s Geology Building for his talk titled: ‘Accretion and Final Mass of Gas Giants’. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/UniverseToday #nasa #astro #cosmos #DTLA #education #EPSS #exoplanets #explore #GasGiants #Jupiter #LosAngeles #Neptune #origins #outreach #pizza #planet #physics #SantaMonica #Saturn #sky #solarsystem #space #UCBerkeley #UCLA #universe #universetoday #Uranus (at Institute for Planets & Exoplanets - IPLEX) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByInWFWgq_J/?igshid=oxzyyj84yadi

As we learned more about our solar system in relation to how it fares amongst the many exoplanetary systems discovered to date, ‘Hot Jupiters’ seemed to be the most common type of exoplanet. With the story unfolding as technology has been getting better, it seems that Hot Jupiters have been easy to detect and have strange and exotic atmospheres we are still learning more about. Strangely enough, our own solar system seems quite different to the many exoplanetary systems found thus far. As our final UCLA Planet Lunch Talk this quarter at @ucla , please join us with our speaker Elizabeth Bailey from Caltech (@caltechedu)! Addressing the issue of Hot Jupiters, her talk is entitled ‘Forming Hot Jupiters Near and Far’. By learning more about how #exoplanets form, we may learn more about how our own solar system (with Jupiter being the biggest planet) fits into the large scope for planetary science! Image Credit: ESO #nasa #astro #astronomy #atmosphere #California #Caltech #CIT #DTLA #education #EPSS #exoplanet #Jupiter #LosAngeles #Pasadena #planet #physics #pizza #SoCal #STEM #universe #universetoday (at Institute for Planets & Exoplanets - IPLEX) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByayZW5Aj2m/?igshid=f9u6i15qpx1b

Now at the end of its life, the #Kepler K2 mission has discovered over 2300 exoplanets, moreso than any other space mission thus far. Though hypothesized to exist in previous decades, the first exoplanet(s) were discovered in 1992 and to this day, we are learning more and more about them. Gaia is another survey that will help in the detection and add this number. This week, we welcome BJ Fulton from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute as well as Caltech and IPAC to discuss Exoplanet Demographics in the Era of Gaia. You can read his paper about the California-Kepler Survey (CKS) HERE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01453.pdf Join us this Friday from 12-1PM in UCLA's Geology Building for his exciting talk! Be sure to follow @UCLAiPLEX on #Instagram, Twitter, and our other social media outlets as we seek to share the fascinating world of planetary #science and #astronomy with everyone! Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech #nasa #astro #California #Caltech #cosmos #education #EPSS #exoplanets #explore #Gaia #IPAC #JPL #K2 #LosAngeles #outreach #Pasadena #planet #physics #sky #space #spaceweather #SoCal #STEM #telescope #universe #universetoday (at Institute for Planets & Exoplanets - IPLEX) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqN-G72BM9W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h7cyw0h2aabj

The 'Active Asteroids' are a new class of Solar System objects that share the dynamical properties of asteroids but have the physical properties of comets like tails and comae. There are about 20 such known Active Asteroids. Beginning in 1996 with the first Active Asteroid, 133P Elst-Pizarro, it was once classified as an Asteroid as it sublimated ice much like comets do once they get close to the Sun. Just over a decade later, the game was changed with P/2010 A2 (LINEAR) [pictured at the very top of the image] as we learned that as these objects got impacted, they too could release idea and dust, something not seen before. A2 is a peculiar Active Asteroid that has tails strangely in the shape of the letter ‘X’. Today, we welcome Yoonyoung Kim, a visiting Ph.D student, direct from Seoul National University, of whom is an expert on P/2010 A2. Her research encompasses modeling of A2 over the past 7 years to help us understand why this, and other Active Asteroids exhibit 'activity' in the form of tails via mass loss from dust and ices. She is also working on helping our understanding of dormant comets and asteroids. Read her paper HERE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.08815.pdf @UCLA is also a major powerhouse in terms of professors and students studying the Active Asteroids. ▬ Connect with iPLEX and iPLEX Social Media! ▬ ● iPLEX Website » planets.ucla.edu ● Instagram » instagram.com/UCLAiPLEX ● Twitter » twitter.com/UCLAiPLEX ● Tumblr » UCLAiPLEX.tumblr.com ● Youtube » youtube.com/uclaplanets Image Credit: Dr. David C. Jewitt, IOPscience #nasa #ActiveAsteroids #Asteroids #astro #comets #cosmos #DTLA #education #EPSS #explore #Hubble #JPL #Korea #LINEAR #LosAngeles #outreach #Pasadena #planet #physics #sky #SNU #Seoul #SolarSystem #SouthKorea #space #UCLA #universe #universetoday (at Institute for Planets & Exoplanets - IPLEX)

In the formation of planetary systems, a star enters the Main Sequence and over time, pebbles coalesce to rocks, those rocks become cores, and planets begin to form. In today’s iPLEX Talk from 12-1PM in the @UCLA Geology Building, we will have Dr. Eric Mamajek from JPL discussing J1407, which has a transiting disk/ring region and may represent the first example of a protoexosatellite disk and indirect evidence of exomoon formation! You can read his paper HERE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.05652 Image Credit: ESO, UniverseToday #nasa #astro #astrophysics #bruins #cosmos #DTLA #education #Earth #EPSS #exomoons #explore #exoplanets #infrared #JPL #LosAngeles #moon #outreach #Pasadena #planet #physics #rings #Saturn #sky #space #UCLA #universe #universetoday (at Institute for Planets & Exoplanets - IPLEX)

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