The number of confirmed extrasolar planets just got bigger, thanks to a sustained effort by experts operating the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS). In their latest study, the astronomers found no less than 50 new exoplanets.
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13 September 2011
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and the University Observatory Munich now have every reason to be proud – their new spectrograph was successfully installed on an American telescope, where it has already produced its “first light” study.The VIRUS-W instrument... |
25 January 2011
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One of the things plaguing the field of exoplanetary research today is the fact that data collected about planets orbiting other stars are not very clear-cut. That is to say, of the hundreds of bodies thus far discovered, only a handful have been observed directly, and had their properties measured accurately. Genera... |
24 July 2010
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The Universe has always set the standard for colors. It produces all possible combinations of colors, granted not always in the visible light spectrum. But figuring out how these nuances intertwine is absolutely essential to, for example, determining the distance a certain object is from Earth, what chemicals it cont... |
31 March 2010
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Researchers at the American space agency NASA have recently announced that they managed to create a new method of using modest, ground-based telescopes for producing amazing new science. The technique was just recently used on an exoplanet some 63 light-years away, with the 30-year-old, 3-meter-diameter (10-foot) NAS... |
8 February 2010
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Understanding the current state of the Universe has less to do with analyzing the way things are now, and more to do with finding out how things were in the early days, when the first galaxies and black holes appeared from the chaos that existed after the Big Bang. For this very purpose, experts with the Sloan Digita... |
14 October 2009
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Two of the most advanced telescopes orbiting the planet or the Sun today were launched this year aboard an Ariane 5 delivery system by the European Space Agency (ESA). One of them is the Planck observatory, whose mission is to analyze the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), while the other is the flagship mission, the... |
2 October 2009
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The largest facility for celestial observations owned by Europe – the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) – has recently received the first of its new upgrades, with the installation of the X-Shooter spectrograph, one of the many second-generation devices to be installed ... |
26 May 2009
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If today's Atlantis launch goes according to plan, and the astronauts aboard the shuttle manage to complete all of their assigned objectives, the Hubble Space Telescope will once again become the most efficient observatory currently in our possession. The five spacewalks that were scheduled for the STS-125 missi... |
11 May 2009
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