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UCLA, British Astronomers Discover The Wake Of A Planet Around A Nearby Star – Strong Evidence For Solar Systems Like Ours
October 11, 2002 — An international team of astronomers reports the first strong evidence for the existence of massive planets on wide orbits -- like those of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- around many stars. The new ... > full story -
100th Extra-Solar Planet Gives Clues To Origins Of Planets
September 23, 2002 — British astronomers, together with Australian and American colleagues, have used the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope [AAT] in New South Wales, Australia to discover a new planet outside our Solar ... > full story -
The Sun: A Great Ball Of Iron?
July 17, 2002 — For years, scientists have assumed that the sun is an enormous mass of hydrogen. But in a poster presentation to be delivered July 21-26 at the Meteoritical Society's annual meeting in Los ... > full story -
Newfound Planetary System Has "Hometown" Look
June 14, 2002 — After 15 years of observation and a lot of patience, the world's premier planet-hunting team has found a planetary system that reminds them of our home solar ... > full story -
Teenage Stars: Rebels Without A Known Cause
May 3, 2002 — Normally, a young star gets smaller as its gravity pulls gas and dust in toward its center; the smaller the star gets, the faster it spins. But a scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ... > full story -
Off-The-Shelf Camera Device To Hunt For Distant Planets
March 13, 2002 — It could fit on your desk, and it's made mostly from parts bought at a camera shop, but two scientists believe their new instrument will help them find a slew of large planets orbiting stars in ... > full story -
Planets Of The Phoenix: Astronomers Predict Rebirth Of Planetary Systems In The Embers Of Dead Stars
January 8, 2002 — A new way to identify planetary systems around nearby stars, and a possible new explanation for the mysterious properties of certain strange white-dwarf stars, will be presented at the annual meeting ... > full story -
NASA Selects Missions To Explore Two Large Asteroids And Search For Earth-Like Planets
December 24, 2001 — Two new NASA missions, selected in the agency's Discovery Program, promise to bring staples of science- fiction stories to reality. The missions are Dawn, slated for launch in 2006, which will ... > full story -
Simulation Explains Mystery Of Giant Planets' Tiny Moons
December 3, 2001 — In what could be the ultimate in fast-forward, Cornell University planetary scientists have used one of the world's most powerful computing clusters to simulate motions of the small moons of ... > full story -
Hubble Space Telescope Makes First Direct Measurements Of Atmosphere On World Around Another Star
November 28, 2001 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system and have obtained the first information ... > full story
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