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Artist's Concept of Exoplanet HR 8799b

Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data

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created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful, newly refined image-processing technique may allow astronomers to discover extrasolar planets that are possibly lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival ...


Artist's Impression of the Star OGLE-TR-56 and its Planet

Exoplanet atmospheres detected from Earth for the first time

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created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Transiting exoplanets are routinely detected when they pass in front of their parent star as viewed from the Earth, which only happens by chance. The transit event causes a small drop in the ...





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2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone ...


A faraway planet intrigues: Exoplanet with extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy

A faraway planet intrigues: Exoplanet with extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two teams of astronomers have found a planet outside the solar system that might be orbiting backwards compared to its star's rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the ...


Starring Intelligent Aliens

Starring Intelligent Aliens

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 7

The most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars very similar to our sun, a new study has found.


Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System

Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young ...


Icebreaker: Scientist brings out the big gun to explore the behavior of ice in planetary collisions

Icebreaker: Scientist brings out big gun to explore behavior of ice in planetary collisions

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard's Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers ...


Jamie Lloyd on the lookout for exoplanets

Researcher hunts for new planets, seeking clues on solar system's origin

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets.


Study of first high-resolution images of Pallas confirms asteroid is actually a protoplanet

Study of first high-resolution images of Pallas confirms asteroid is actually a protoplanet

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created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Britney E. Schmidt, a UCLA doctoral student in the department of Earth and space sciences, wasn't sure what she'd glean from images of the asteroid Pallas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...


The discovery of new Earths is imminent, UD astronomer says

The discovery of new Earths is imminent, UD astronomer says

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harry Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, told the audience for his lecture, “Seeking New Planets,” on Saturday evening, Sept. 26, ...


Spot discovered on dwarf planet Haumea shows up red and rich with organics

Spot discovered on dwarf planet Haumea shows up red and rich with organics

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created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 2

A dark red area discovered on dwarf planet Haumea appears to be richer in minerals and organic compounds than the surrounding icy surface. The discovery will be presented at the European Planetary Science ...


Sophisticated telescope camera debuts with peek at nest of black holes

Sophisticated telescope camera debuts with peek at nest of black holes

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Less than two months after they inaugurated the world's largest telescope, University of Florida astronomers have used one of the world's most advanced telescopic instruments to gather images of the heavens.



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