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Team finds smallest transiting extrasolar planet ever
Feb 03, 2009 |
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The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet only twice as large as the Earth orbiting a star slightly smaller than the Sun. It is the smallest extrasolar planet (planet outside our solar system) whose radius ...
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Venus Express adds evidence for atmospheric water loss on Earth's Twin
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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Observations by the European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission have provided strong new evidence that the solar wind has stripped away significant quantities of water from Earth’s twin planet. The data ...
The Good Vibrations of Nearby Stars
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Some of the first data collected by the CoRoT space telescope mission, launched in December 2006, provides valuable information about the physical vibrations and surface characteristics of nearby stars that ...
Vega: the star with comets?
Apr 12, 2006 |
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The observation of the immediate vicinity of a star other than the Sun has just been carried out for the first time. A debris disc made up of hot (1300 degrees) dust grains, residues of comet evaporation and ...
Venus Express set for liftoff
Oct 18, 2005 |
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On 26th October the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan en route to Earth's closest planetary neighbour - the ultimate "greenhouse" ...
Another Look at an Enigmatic New World
Feb 24, 2005 |
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On January 14, 2005, the ESA Huygens probe arrived at Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. After a faultless descent through the dense atmosphere, it touched down on the icy surface of this strange world from ...
Foreseeing the Sun’s fate: Astronomical interferometry reveals the close environment of Mira stars
Sep 17, 2004 |
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For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by Guy Perrin from the Paris Observatory/LESIA, (Meudon, France) and Stephen Ridgway from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (Tucson, Arizona, ...
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