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The American space agency's Kepler Telescopes was one of our best bets at finding a rocky, Earth-like exoplanet around other stars. Its incredibly precise instruments were to ensure that this would happen seamlessly, but it would seem that it was precisely its scientific payload that now prevents it from actuall... |
31 October 2009
03:02 GMT |
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It seems that researchers have reached the same conclusion we talked about in some of our articles published not long ago: the exoplanet discovery process, as fortuitous and science-boasting as it may be, does get old. A series of exoplanets have been discovered in the recent few months alone. Tragically, they seem t... |
15 December 2008
10:18 GMT |
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At some point, 5 billion years from now, the Sun will begin to swell and will slowly engulf the first planets in its vicinity, including our own. But life would have been obliterated long before this process actually occurred. Still, this is not necessarily a scary scenario, since while scorching our planet, the Sun ... |
11 December 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Discovering planets from outside our solar system by using the indirect radial velocity technique seems to have lost its novelty factor as of late, but it doesn't lower the merits and importance of adding to the growing number of exoplanets. The latest member of the exoplanet discoveries club, called OGLE2-TR-L9... |
5 December 2008
07:14 GMT |
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Another planet has been discovered outside the boundaries of our solar system. A team of astronomers came upon the planet while performing observations with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope of McDonald Observatory in Texas. Actually, they did not observe the planet directly, but rather deduced it was there by using the rad... |
2 December 2008
10:13 GMT |
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It seems that once started, the exoplanet direct observation process is quickly becoming a regular one, given the discovery of such an object. A group of astronomers from France, led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, used images from the Very Large Telescope in order to pinpoint the location of a planet supposed to be approxim... |
24 November 2008
09:17 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the University College London in the UK, led by Giovanna Tinetti, has discovered the presence of carbon dioxide within the atmosphere of an extra solar planet some 65 light years far from the Earth. This is a major discovery as it proves that carbon dioxide may be present on other worlds as ... |
24 November 2008
04:12 GMT |
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During a period a bit over a dozen years, planet hunters have come upon over 300 exoplanets, but they have done so by calculating light, speed or gravity changes of the stars they were thought to orbit. This time, two astronomer teams have managed to spot exoplanets directly, by means of actual photographs. Astronome... |
14 November 2008
03:37 GMT |
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A new gas giant exoplanet roughly the size of Jupiter orbiting around a star similar to our Sun has been found by the CoRoT space telescope operated by the European Space Agency. The planet, dubbed CoRoT-Exo-4b, was discovered through a transit method, appears to complete an orbit around its star in about 9.2 days an... |
25 July 2008
10:43 GMT |
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NASA's comet chaser Deep Impact became famous on July 4, 2005 as the first spacecraft in the history of space exploration to collide an impactor into the nucleus of a comet in order to study its internal composition. As it turns out, Deep Impact provided recently two short films showing how our planet and its mo... |
18 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Until now, several hundred planets have been found orbiting around nearby stars while the number of moons remained at a constant zero. It's not that they're not there, it's just that we can't see them with today's technology. To put it even simpler, the smallest planet ever found was a terres... |
9 June 2008
09:59 GMT |
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The newly discovered object, dubbed MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, is a terrestrial planet roughly three times as heavy as Earth orbiting a star called MOA-2007-BLG-192L located about 3,000 light years away from us. The finding also marks the discovery of the smallest star to have a planet orbiting around it, since it only weig... |
3 June 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Only a few decades ago, astronomers weren't even sure if other solar systems aside ours exist in the universe. Since then, a couple of hundreds of solar systems have been discovered, mostly composed of gas giants. When trying to learn about other solar systems, astronomers often make analogies to our own. If our... |
10 May 2008
07:02 GMT |
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The study of exoplanets and other solar systems is in high gear ever since the discovery of the first extrasolar planet back in 1996, finding new and interesting facts about solar systems formation processes. The same thing is available for an object orbiting a distant star, found nearly four years ago. The gas giant... |
10 January 2008
04:45 GMT |
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While twelve years passed since the first planet that orbits around another star was discovered, we have developed multiple detection techniques such as studying the wobble of the star produced by the gravitational pull of the planet, or comparing the light emitted from the star in the hope that we might catch the ob... |
27 December 2007
06:10 GMT |
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The most recently discovered exoplanet is a true giant, being only six times smaller than the star it orbits. It's located in the constellation Hercules about 10 degrees west of Vega, the brightest star in the summer skies and was discovered by an international team of astronomers with the help of a network of ... |
1 June 2007
10:20 GMT |
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A newly discovered exoplanet puzzles astronomers. Named XO-1b, the planet is the most massive found orbiting extremely close to its star, but it doesn't have a circular orbit, like most astronomers would have expected, but an elliptical one, which is very unusual, considering the short distance to its sun.Disco... |
31 May 2007
02:46 GMT |
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Finding planets orbiting stars at great distances from our solar system is not an easy job, but there seem to be many of them out there, according to recent observations. And that's a great thing, since it's actually harder than finding a needle in space hay stack. It's more like looking for a firefl... |
7 May 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Until now, scientists have used various techniques to detect more than 200 exoplanets. Most of these exoplanets are from five to 4,000 times more massive than Earth, and are either too hot, too cold or too much of a giant gas ball to be considered likely habitats for life. So far, no one has managed to capture an im... |
12 April 2007
08:18 GMT |
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For the first time in history, an alien planet outside our solar system is proven to have water in its atmosphere. Previous theories said water vapor should be present in the atmospheres of nearly all the known extrasolar planets.Travis Barman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, said water va... |
11 April 2007
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