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- Rare stellar alignment offers opportunity to hunt for planets
- Lightest exoplanet to be directly observed so far? Faint object moves near bright star
- Weather on the outer planets only goes so deep
- New method of finding planets scores its first discovery
- Sifting through atmospheres of far-off worlds
- Dead stars 'polluted' with planetary debris: Signs of Earth-like planets found
| Rare stellar alignment offers opportunity to hunt for planets Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:32 PM PDT NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October |
| Lightest exoplanet to be directly observed so far? Faint object moves near bright star Posted: 03 Jun 2013 06:17 AM PDT A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has imaged a faint object moving near a bright star. With an estimated mass of four to five times that of |
| Weather on the outer planets only goes so deep Posted: 16 May 2013 07:56 AM PDT What is the long-range weather forecast for the giant planets Uranus and Neptune? These planets are home to extreme winds blowing at speeds of over 1000 km/hour, hurricane-like storms as large around |
| New method of finding planets scores its first discovery Posted: 13 May 2013 12:28 PM PDT Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for |
| Sifting through atmospheres of far-off worlds Posted: 10 May 2013 04:28 PM PDT Gone are the days of being able to count the number of known planets on your fingers. Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets -- planets that orbit stars beyond our sun -- and more than |
| Dead stars 'polluted' with planetary debris: Signs of Earth-like planets found Posted: 09 May 2013 09:36 AM PDT Astronomers have found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white dwarf stars are being polluted by debris from |
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