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Deep Space
New Planets
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Watching a Young Planet Being Born
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/20/11 |
| Astronomers have captured the first direct image of a planet forming around its star. The 'protoplanet' is surrounded by cooler dust and gas, which is falling into the still-forming planet. The discovery provides new insight into how planets form and evolve. |
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Astronomers Find New Planets in Old Data
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/09/11 |
| Astronomers have found visual evidence of two extrasolar planets by re-examining decade-old Hubble data. The study demonstrates a novel approach for planet hunting with Hubble data archives. |
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Journey to the Exoplanets
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/08/11 |
| A new iPad app is providing users with the chance to explore mysterious planets outside of the Solar System. |
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An Unusual Multi-Planet System
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/05/11 |
| Astronomers have discovered a multi-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets. Uniquely, the planets orbit in resonance with each other and around a star similar to the Sun. |
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Doubts Over Fomalhaut b
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/28/11 |
| Formalhaut b has been billed as the first exoplanet to be directly imaged in optical wavelengths. Now, it's identity is being questioned. Determining the effectiveness of planet-hunting techniques is important for astrobiologists who are searching for habitable worlds around distant stars. |
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How You Can Find an ExoPlanet
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/24/11 |
| Since the online citizen science project Planet Hunters launched last December, 40,000 web users from around the world have been helping professional astronomers analyze the light from 150,000 stars in the hopes of discovering Earth-like planets. |
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How Exoplanets are Surprising Scientists
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/21/11 |
| Kepler has provided a trove of information concerning extrasolar planets. Earlier this summer, The Kavli Foundation spoke with three prominent researchers in the field about how Kepler´s discoveries are already helping to change their thinking about planets in the Milky Way. |
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A Planet Blasted with X-Rays
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/18/11 |
| New data suggest that high-energy radiation is evaporating about 5 million tons of matter from the planet CoRoT-2b every second. This result gives insight into the difficult survival path for some planets. |
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Tatooine-Like Planet Discovered
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/17/11 |
| Researchers have discovered a planet that orbits around a pair of stars - a scene similar to the fictional planet of Tatooine in the sci-fi classic Star Wars. |
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Extreme Weather on Alien World
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/16/11 |
| Astronomers may have witnessed a storm brewing on a brown dwarf star. The storm could be grander than anything yet seen on a planet, and could help scientists understand weather phenomena on extra-solar planets. |
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