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Beta Pictoris Planet Finally Imaged?
A team of French astronomers
have discovered an object
located very close to the
star Beta Pictoris, and
which apparently lies inside
its disc. With a projected
distance from the star of
... > full story
New Planet Discovered Orbiting Dangerously Close To Giant Star
Astronomers have discovered
a new planet that is closely
orbiting a red-giant star,
HD 102272, which is much
older than our own Sun. The
planet has a mass that is
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Hubble Directly Observes A Planet Orbiting Another Star
NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope has taken the
first visible-light snapshot
of a planet circling another
star. Estimated to be no
more than three times
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First Direct Images Of A Planetary Family Around A Normal Star
Astronomers have obtained
the first-ever direct images
identifying a multi-planet
system around a normal star.
This discovery is the first
time we have directly imaged
... > full story
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Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts
October 27, 2008 — New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts. Our own solar system has just ... > full story -
How Dust Rings Point To Exo-Earths With Supercomputer's Help
October 12, 2008 — Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new ... > full story -
Is It A Planet? Exotic Object Orbiting Star Stirs Exoplanet Classification Rethink
October 7, 2008 — The European spacecraft COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to ... > full story -
NASA Identifies Carbon-rich Molecules In Meteors As The ‘Origin Of Life’
September 25, 2008 — Tons, perhaps tens of tons, of carbon molecules in dust particles and meteorites fall on Earth daily. Meteorites are especially valuable to astronomers because they provide relatively big chunks of ... > full story -
Two Planets Suffer Violent Collision
September 24, 2008 — Two planets in orbit around a mature sun-like star recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers report in the Astrophysical Journal. "It's as if Earth and Venus collided with each other," said ... > full story -
Finding Fireflies Next To A Lighthouse: New Optics Technology To Study Alien Worlds
September 24, 2008 — Scientists are studying new optical methods for three possible new NASA missions to search for alien worlds. The experimental technologies promise to allow astronomers to directly detect exoplanets ... > full story -
Fifth Dwarf Planet Named Haumea
September 22, 2008 — The International Astronomical Union has announced that the object previously known as 2003 EL61 is to be classified as the fifth dwarf planet in the Solar System and named Haumea. This now means ... > full story -
First Picture Of Likely Planet Around Sun-like Star
September 15, 2008 — Astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planet around a normal star similar to the Sun. Scientists used the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i to take images of ... > full story -
Presence Of Planets In Young Gas Discs Hinted At Using Clever New Astronomical Method
September 9, 2008 — Astronomers have been able to study planet-forming discs around young Sun-like stars in unsurpassed detail, clearly revealing the motion and distribution of the gas in the inner parts of the disc. ... > full story -
A Fine-tooth Comb To Measure The Accelerating Universe
September 5, 2008 — Astronomical instruments needed to answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come a step closer with the first demonstration at the ... > full story
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