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Although this scenario appears to work in most stellar systems, it has difficulty explaining the newly-discovered planet in HD 188753. Of all the planet-harboring stars known, this is the closest that a stellar companion has ever been found. ... The reason for this disparity is that the main technique for locating planets --
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Using the latest techniques in space technology, astronomers at NASA and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used direct-imaging techniques to capture pictures of four newly discovered planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.
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(SPACE.com) -- In a discovery that has left one expert stunned, European astronomers have found one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, ... While researchers do not know the full range of conditions under which life can survive, the newly discovered world, with its hot surface, is not the sort of...
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Image right: An artist's concept of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna." The Sun appears as an extremely bright star instead of a large, warm disc observed from Earth. In the distance is a hypothetical small moon, which scientists believe may be orbiting this distant body.
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images of new planet 2003UB313 ... Tenth Planet Discovered; Image above: These time-lapse images of a newfound planet in our solar system, called 2003UB313, were taken on Oct. 21, 2003, using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif.
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Two new (potentially) water-bearing planets have been discovered 35 light years away! ... Using the 120-inch telescope at the University of California's Lick Observatory near San Jose, Geoffrey Marcy and fellow researcher Paul Butler discovered the new planets in the Virgo and Ursa Major constellations.
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www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/planet.html
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Plan To Identify Watery Earth-Like Planets Develops (Apr. 26, 2008) — Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a newly developed mathematical ... ... Lightest Exoplanet Yet Discovered (Apr. 21,
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More Newly Discovered Planets ; ... These planets have all been discovered through accurate measurements of the radial velocity of the host star. If a star is in a binary system, it will orbit the center of mass of that system. To an external observer, this means the star will periodically move towards and away from...
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zebu.uoregon.edu/newplanet.html
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What has therefore emerged from these studies is the indication that there is no one kind of Solar System arrangement in terms of where these massive planets are located. ... Currently there is grossly insufficient data to determine with any precision the orbit of this newly discovered object. Doubtless it will pass between...
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zebu.uoregon.edu/planets/planets.html
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