Astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths. Radiation from the planets' stars is stripping away their atmospheres, driving hot gas to escape like steam from a pot of boiling water.
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February 7  | 4pm-5pm
Join this week's High Energy Physics Seminar "Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles" with Cristian Peña.
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February 11  | 11am-12pm
Join this week's High Energy Theory Seminar "Quantum Gravity from Probability" with Josephine Suh. 
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February 11  | 2pm-3pm
Join this week's TAPIR Seminar "Binary Evolution: a Multi-messenger, Multi-band Puzzle" with Katelyn Breivik. 
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February 7  | 4pm-5pm
Join this week's Astronomy Tea Talk "Evaporative Transmission Spectroscopy at Close-in Exoplanet and Exomoon Systems" with Apurva Oza. 
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February 7  | 4pm-5pm
Join this week's Algebra and Geometry Seminar "Abelian Varieties not Isogenous to Jacobians over global fields" with Ananth Shankar.
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February 9  | 12pm-1pm
Join this week's Logic Seminar "Measurable combinatorics in hyperfinite graphs" with Matthew Bowen. 
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February 9  | 11am-12pm
Join this week's IQIM Postdoctoral & Graduate Student Seminar "Our experience with tensor network methods in magnetic resonance" with Ilya Kuprov. 
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February 10  | 1pm-2pm
Join this week's LIGO Seminar "Modeling the engines of multi-messenger gravitational wave events" with Elias Most. 
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February 7  | 4pm-5pm
Join this week's Quantum Matter Seminar "A Post-pandemic Tool for Quantum Materials" with Ken Burch. 
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