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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
October 4, 2006 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Two New Planets, Both Among The Hottest Ever
September 26, 2006 — A team of UK, French and Swiss astronomers has discovered two new Jupiter-sized planets around stars in the constellations of Andromeda and Delphinus. They are among the hottest planets yet ... > full story -
Scientists Snap First Images Of Brown Dwarf In Planetary System
September 18, 2006 — Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered and directly imaged a small brown dwarf star, 50 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting with a planet around a sun-like star. Such an ... > full story -
Strange New Planet Baffles Astronomers
September 14, 2006 — Using a network of small automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world. This new planet, designated HAT-P-1, orbits one member of a ... > full story -
Earth-Like Planets May Be More Common Than Once Thought
September 10, 2006 — More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside Earth's solar system may harbor Earth-like planets, many covered in deep oceans with potential for life, according to a new ... > full story -
Planet Or Failed Star? One Of Smallest Stellar Companions Seen By Hubble
September 8, 2006 — Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the ... > full story -
Bigger Solar System? Astronomers Debate Definition Of 'Planet' And 'Plutons'
August 16, 2006 — The world's astronomers, under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), have concluded two years of work defining the difference between "planets" and the smaller "solar system ... > full story -
Baby 'Planemos' Can Be Born As Twins
August 4, 2006 — Astronomers are challenging an existing theoretical model and thrilling the astronomy community with their discovery of a seven-Jupiter-mass companion next to a planemo, or planetary mass object, ... > full story -
Planet-Forming Disks Might Put The Brakes On Stars
July 24, 2006 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that dusty disks of planet-forming material tug on and slow down the young, whirling stars they surround. Young stars are full ... > full story -
Models Show One Nearby Star System Could Host Earth-Like Planet
July 24, 2006 — Researchers running computer simulations for four nearby systems that contain giant planets about the size of Jupiter have found one that could have formed an Earth-like planet with the right ... > full story
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