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Astronomers Discover Pair Of Solar Systems In The Making
Astronomers have found a
binary star-disk system in
which each star is
surrounded by the kind of
dust disk that is frequently
the precursor of a planetary
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Search For ET Just Got Easier: Effective Way To Search Atmospheres Of Planets For Signs Of Life
Astronomers have confirmed
an effective way to search
the atmospheres of planets
for signs of life, vastly
improving our chances of
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Planet-forming Disk Discovered Orbiting Twin Suns
Astronomers have announced
new images that clearly
reveal the presence of a
rotating molecular disk
orbiting the young binary
star system V4046
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Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds: Jupiter-like Planet Found Orbiting One Of Smallest Stars
A long-proposed tool for
hunting planets has netted
its first catch -- a
Jupiter-like planet orbiting
one of the smallest stars
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Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet
July 9, 2009 — Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new ... > full story -
New Definition Could Further Limit Habitable Zones Around Distant Suns
June 11, 2009 — New calculations indicate that, in nearby star systems, tidal forces exerted on planets by their parent star's gravity could limit what is regarded as a star's habitable zone and change the criteria ... > full story -
New Technique Could Find Water On Earth-like Planets Orbiting Distant Suns
May 26, 2009 — A team of astronomers and astrobiologists has devised a technique to tell whether small Earth-like planets orbiting other suns harbor liquid water, which in turn could tell whether they might be able ... > full story -
New Way Of Reading Light With Help Locate Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars
May 12, 2009 — A new way of reading light will sharpen the view of planets around other stars. Researchers have created an "astro-comb" to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant ... > full story -
Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides
May 3, 2009 — Astronomers have found hundreds of extrasolar planets in the last two decades, and new research indicates they might have found even more except for one thing -- some planets have fallen into their ... > full story -
Mass-loss Leaves Close-in Exoplanets Exposed To The Core
April 27, 2009 — Scientists have found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. They found that planets that orbit closer than 2% of an ... > full story -
New Effort To Discover Habitable Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars
April 26, 2009 — Astronomers have announced plans to build an ultra-stable, high-precision spectrograph for the Science and Technology Facilities Council's 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope in an effort to discover ... > full story -
Students Find Jupiter-sized Oddball Planet
April 22, 2009 — Student astronomers in England have discovered that an exotic world passes directly in front of the Sun-like star it orbits, revealing for the first time that it is about the same size as ... > full story -
Lightest Exoplanet Yet Discovered
April 21, 2009 — Exoplanet researchers have discovered the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, "e", in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit ... > full story -
Solar Systems Around Dead Suns?
April 20, 2009 — Astronomers have found that at least 1 in 100 white dwarf stars show evidence of orbiting asteroids and rocky planets, suggesting these objects once hosted solar systems similar to our ... > full story
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