Astronomers decided to include the extrasolar planet Gliese 581g in the catalog of potentially habitable worlds. A great deal of controversy still surrounds this alien planet but, for the moment, the evidence that it actually exists appears to outweigh that suggesting it does not.
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3 August 2012
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Astronomers at the University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC) say that the extrasolar planet Gliese 581g exists after all. The team originally identified the world in 2010, but a Swiss group shed doubts on its existence a few weeks later. Now, the UCSC experts say the other researchers are wrong.
Gliese 581g is t... |
24 July 2012
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In a new astronomical study conducted to validate a discovery announced in late 2010, experts could not find any signs that the proposed exoplanet dubbed Second Earth actually orbits its alleged parent star, Gliese 581. That is not to say that no exoplanets were found around the object. That system is known for housi... |
19 January 2011
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About a month ago, an astronomy team shocked the international scientific community with evidence of the first Earth-like planet orbiting another star inside the habitable zone. Now, that exoplanet's atmosphere is modeled in a new study. A few days after the discovery of the planet was announced, another researc... |
2 November 2010
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Some of you may remember the name of the exoplanet Gliese 581g as the first ever extrasolar body to be found orbiting its star inside the habitable zone, which allows for the existence of liquid water. This made astronomers refer to it as the “second Earth,” and caused quite a stir in the international sc... |
12 October 2010
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