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NASA's Spitzer First To Crack Open Light Of Faraway Worlds
February 22, 2007 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of molecules in their atmospheres. The ... > full story -
Colorful Demise Of A Sun-Like Star
February 13, 2007 — A brand new image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows the planetary nebula NGC 2440 -- the chaotic structure of the demise of a ... > full story -
Hubble Probes Layer-Cake Structure Of Alien World's Atmosphere
January 31, 2007 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. Hubble discovered a dense upper layer ... > full story -
First Detection Of A Planet-Forming Disk Near Environment Of A Dying Star
January 16, 2007 — Astronomers generally assume that the dusty disks where planets form are found around young stars in stellar nurseries. Now, for the first time, a planet-forming disk has been found in the ... > full story -
Earth's Strongest Winds Wouldn't Even Be A Breeze On These Planets
January 9, 2007 — New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant -- and blazing hot -- from day to night, even though it is likely one side of each ... > full story -
Hubble Observations Provide Insight Into Planet Birth
January 7, 2007 — New observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have begun to fill gaps in the early stages of planet birth. Hubble observed a "blizzard" of particles in a disk around a young star revealing the ... > full story -
European Spacecraft To Detect Exoplanets Orbiting Around Other Stars And Probe Mysteries Of Stellar Interiors
December 19, 2006 — On December 27, COROT is to be launched into space on a unique astronomy mission: its twin goals are to detect exoplanets orbiting around other stars and to probe the mysteries of stellar interiors ... > full story -
Europe Goes Searching For Rocky Planets
October 26, 2006 — The COROT space telescope is proceeding smoothly towards its launch in December 2006. Once in orbit, COROT will become the first spacecraft devoted to the search for rocky planets, similar to our own ... > full story -
First Directly Imaged Brown Dwarf Companion To An Exoplanet Host Star
October 19, 2006 — Astronomers have detected a new faint companion to the star HD 3651, already known to host a planet. This companion, a brown dwarf, is the faintest known companion of an exoplanet host star imaged ... > full story -
Astronomers First To Measure Night And Day On Extrasolar Planet
October 12, 2006 — University of Central Florida Astronomy professor Joseph Harrington and University of California at Los Angeles professor Brad M. Hansen and their team have made the first direct observation of ... > full story
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