The two new planets were found around the stars 70 Virginis, in the constellation Virgo, and 47 Ursae Majoris, in the Big Dipper or Ursa Major. Both stars are visible to the naked eye, but the planets are too small and dim to be seen against the glare of their parent star.
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The big question, then, is how many new planets are there in the Kuiper belt, a region of rocky/icy bodies beyond Neptune, and the home of Pluto and 2003 UB313 ("the 10th planet"). ... The large number of new planets in the solar system are very different from the previous 9 planets. Most are so small that they are...
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The massive haul of new worlds brings the number of known extrasolar planets to more than 400, astronomers say. ... Astronomers have added 32 new planets to the list of planets found orbiting stars outside our solar system.
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One of the new planets was the second detected in a system with three stars. Any observer standing on the planet would get plenty of light, at times seeing three suns in the sky, astronomers said.
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Astronomers from Queen's University Belfast have helped to discover 10 new planets BBC - April 1, 2008 ... Newfound world shatters distance record Space.com - April 2004 ; Three new planets found...
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The Hubble Space Telescope may have found as many as 100 new planets around stars in our galaxy. ... More work remains to be done to convince astronomers that they really have found so many new planets.
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Swiss astronomers find eight new "planets" circling distant stars. ... Eight new "planets" have been discovered by Swiss astronomers. ... One of the new planets has just 80% of the mass of Saturn. This is only the third exoplanet detected so far with a possible sub-saturnian mass. It was picked up orbiting a Sun-like star called...
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