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Astrobiology Top 10: COROT Sets its Sights on the Stars
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| Topic: New Planets |
12/31/07 |
| Astrobiology Magazine is looking back over 2007, highlighting the Top 10 astrobiology stories of the year. At number 3 is the COROT space telescope. Launched in late December of 2006, COROT opened its telescope eye in January and detected its first extrasolar planet in May. Scientists hope COROT will find small rocky worlds similar to the Earth orbiting other stars. |
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Hazy View of a Planet
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| Topic: New Planets |
12/14/07 |
| Astronomers have detected, for the first time, strong evidence of hazes in an extrasolar planet's atmosphere. The discovery may help develop techniques for examining the atmospheres of distant, Earth-like planets. |
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Hunting the Little Fox
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| Topic: New Planets |
12/09/07 |
| Astronomers have made the first ground-based detection of an extrasolar planet's atmosphere. The finding will expand our ability to examine planets beyond our Solar System and will aid in the search for life in the Universe. |
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Racing to Picture a Planet
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| Topic: New Planets |
12/05/07 |
| A new instrument may help astronomers see past the glaring light of stars in order to take direct pictures of exoplanets. Such technology will help us view planets around distant stars and determine whether or not they could be habitable for life as we know it. |
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Star Sprouts Planets Early
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| Topic: New Planets |
12/04/07 |
| NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a very young star that may already be surrounded by young planets. Scientists hope that the new system will help us understand when planets in our own Solar System began to form. |
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And Then There Were Five
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| Topic: New Planets |
11/07/07 |
| Astronomers have discovered a fifth planet circling the star 55 Cancri – a record number of confirmed planets for a star beyond our Solar System. The new planet is probably similar to Saturn, except that it rests within the 'habitable zone' of its parent star. |
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Predicting Planets
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/15/07 |
| Finding new planets around distant stars has become commonplace. But now a team of astronomers has succeeded in predicting the orbit of a planet that hadn´t yet been discovered. The last time that happened was more than 150 years ago. |
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The Planetary Horizon
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/13/07 |
| A newly published review outlines the prospects of finding Earth-like, habitable planets around distant stars using current planet-hunting techniques. |
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Earth 424
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/09/07 |
| Astronomers have spotted a star system 424 light-years away where they think an Earth-like planet is likely forming. They've found a belt of warm dust that has enough mass to form a planet the size of Mars or larger. |
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All Planets Possible
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/30/07 |
| Using new models, scientists have expanded our knowledge about the different types of Earth-sized planets might be found around distant stars. The team has created models for 14 different types of solid planets that might exist in our galaxy. |
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