News tagged with exoplanets
Related topics: orbit , stars , planets , solar system
Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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3 Questions: Sara Seager on searching for Earth-like planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT planetary scientist Sara Seager has been studying exoplanets — planets circling stars other than the sun — for many years.
Nov 23, 2009 |
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A faraway planet intrigues: Exoplanet with extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy
(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 ...
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Detecting Life-Friendly Moons
The search for life-friendly real estate around distant stars doesn't have to be limited to planets. New research shows that habitable exomoons can be detected with a new method using current technology.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Building Planet Earth
A new study shows how rocky planets are formed from the manic swirl of gas and dust that surround a young star, and determines what chemical building blocks are used to construct the planets. Understanding ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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The CoRoT space mission: Early results
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special issue this week dedicated to the early results of the CoRoT space mission. The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) satellite is a 30 centimeter space ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Astronomers do it Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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32 New Exoplanets Found (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Researcher hunts for new planets, seeking clues on solar system's origin
(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.
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Dirty stars make good solar system hosts (w/ Video)
Some stars are lonely behemoths, with no surrounding planets or asteroids, while others sport a skirt of attendant planetary bodies. New research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explains why the co ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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The Hot Saturn Exoplanet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the roughly 350 known exoplanets (i.e., extrasolar planets), the one orbiting the star HD149026 is unique.
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Cloudy with a chance of pebble showers: Simulation suggests rocky exoplanet has bizarre atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- So accustomed are we to the sunshine, rain, fog and snow of our home planet that we find it next to impossible to imagine a different atmosphere and other forms of precipitation.
Sep 29, 2009 |
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First Solid Evidence for a Rocky Exoplanet (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest set of HARPS measurements ever made has firmly established the nature of the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth's. ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Kepler and the Search for Life in Our Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are so many stars in our galaxy that even if planets with complex life (animals and plants) are rare - say one for every billion stars - there could still be dozens here in the Milky ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Kepler Detects Atmosphere of Hot World
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities. The discovery ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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