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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 -
Space Shield Could Help Image Earth-Like Planets, Says Study
July 6, 2006 — A gigantic, daisy-shaped space shield could be used to block out pesky starlight and allow telescope trailing thousands of miles behind it to image light from distant planets skimming by the giant ... > full story -
Hubble Reveals Two Dust Disks Around Nearby Star
June 28, 2006 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed not one but two dust disks circling the nearby star Beta Pictoris. The images confirm a decade of scientific speculation that a warp in the young star's ... > full story -
Three New 'Trojan' Asteroids Found Sharing Neptune's Orbit
June 15, 2006 — Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) ... > full story -
Smashing Young Stars Leave Dwarfs In Their Wake
June 11, 2006 — Astronomers have discovered that the large disks of gas and dust around young stars will fragment if two young stars pass close to each other and form smaller brown dwarfs stars with disks of their ... > full story -
Mysterious Carbon Excess Found In Infant Solar System
June 8, 2006 — Astronomers at the Carnegie Institution detected unusually high quantities of carbon, the basis of all terrestrial life, in an infant solar system around nearby star Beta Pictoris. The surprise ... > full story -
Forming Super-Earths By Ultraviolet Stripping
June 7, 2006 — A new explanation for forming "super-Earths" suggests that they are more likely to be found orbiting red dwarf stars -- the most abundant type of star -- than gas giant planets like Jupiter and ... > full story -
New Study Suggests 'Planemos' May Spawn Planets And Moons
June 5, 2006 — Forget our traditional ideas of where a planetary system forms -- new research led by a University of Toronto astronomer reveals that planetary nurseries can exist not only around stars but also ... > full story -
Astronomers Use Innovative Technique To Find Extrasolar Planet
May 21, 2006 — An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, using simple off-the-shelf equipment to trawl the skies for planets outside our solar system, has hauled in its first "catch." The ... > full story -
Three Neptune-Size Planets Found In Nearby Star System
May 18, 2006 — Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets. The ... > full story
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