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Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction
The keen vision of NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope has
detected a mysterious gap in
a vast protoplanetary disk
of gas and dust swirling
around the nearby star TW
... > full story
Sunny Super-Earth? Atmosphere of Super-Earth Exoplanet Observed for Time First by Two Japanese Telescopes
Astronomers have observed
the atmosphere of
super-Earth "GJ3470b" for
the first time using two
telescopes. This super-Earth
... > full story
Astronomers Gear Up to Discover Earth-Like Planets
Dust clouds around stars are
thought to hide many
undiscovered planets with
conditions suitable for
life, but observations have
been hampered by the fact
... > full story
Stars Don't Obliterate Their Planets (Very Often)
Stars have an alluring pull
on planets, especially those
in a class called hot
Jupiters, which are gas
giants that form farther
from their stars before
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Saturn's Metal-Poor 'Cousin' Discovered With Little Telescope
June 4, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered a hot Saturn-like planet in another solar system 700 light-years ... > full story -
Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets
June 3, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and ... > full story -
Lightest Exoplanet to Be Directly Observed So Far? Faint Object Moves Near Bright Star
June 3, 2013 — A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has imaged a faint object moving near a bright star. With an estimated mass of four to five times that of Jupiter, ... > full story -
Weather on the Outer Planets Only Goes So Deep
May 16, 2013 — What is the long-range weather forecast for the giant planets Uranus and Neptune? These planets are home to extreme winds blowing at speeds of over 1000 km/hour, hurricane-like storms as large around ... > full story -
New Method of Finding Planets Scores Its First Discovery
May 13, 2013 — Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for ... > full story -
Sifting Through Atmospheres of Far-Off Worlds
May 10, 2013 — Gone are the days of being able to count the number of known planets on your fingers. Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets -- planets that orbit stars beyond our sun -- and more than ... > full story -
Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planetary Debris: Signs of Earth-Like Planets Found
May 9, 2013 — Astronomers have found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white dwarf stars are being polluted by debris from ... > full story -
NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
May 6, 2013 — Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun. ... > full story -
Saturn's Youthful Appearance Explained
April 30, 2013 — As planets age they become darker and cooler. Saturn, however, is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age -- a question that has puzzled scientists since the late 1960s. New research has ... > full story -
Astronomer Studies Far-Off Worlds Through 'Characterization by Proxy'
April 26, 2013 — An astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may ... > full story
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