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Deep Space
New Planets
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| Finding Distant Worlds |
| Topic: New Planets |
06/02/02 |
| We know that there are at least 75 planets outside our own solar system, orbiting their distant stars. Although we have never seen any of these planets with our own eyes, several different techniques exist to detect these extrasolar planets. |
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| Study Doubles Number of Potential Earth-Like Planets |
| Topic: New Planets |
06/02/02 |
| The standard model for the formation of rocky planets like Earth appears to be on solid ground even when applied to systems in which two stars orbit each other, according to a new study. |
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| Extrasolar Planets with Earth-like Orbits |
| Topic: New Planets |
06/02/02 |
| Scientists are discovering extrasolar planets with Earth-like orbits. Could it be possible for Earth-like orbiting planets to harbor life just like Earth? |
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| Earth from Afar: A Tiny Flickering Dot |
| Topic: New Planets |
02/27/02 |
| With over 70 planets identified around distant stars, astronomers are now looking for ways to classify which ones are most like Earth - that is to say, the ones most likely with biological potential. |
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| Extrasolar Planets with Earth-like Orbits |
| Topic: New Planets |
08/08/01 |
| Scientists are discovering extrasolar planets with Earth-like orbits. Could it be possible for Earth-like orbiting planets to habor life just like Earth? |
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| The Birth and Death of Embryonic Planets |
| Topic: New Planets |
05/11/01 |
| Researchers study how planets form around stars in the Orion Nebula, hoping to understand better how planets in our own solar system formed. |
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| A Shortage of Planets |
| Topic: New Planets |
03/05/01 |
| When they turned the Hubble Space Telescope on a distant globular cluster of stars, astronomers expected to find fifteen or twenty planets. They found zero. |
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