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Poof! How to Evaporate a Planet
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| Topic: New Planets |
03/12/03 |
| Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed for the first time the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system evaporating into space. |
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Planet Found Orbiting Red Giant
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| Topic: New Planets |
01/23/03 |
| A new planet has been discovered in the southern constellation, Canis Major (The Great Dog). The Jupiter-like planet orbits a Red Giant star--more than 400 light-years away and the second most distant planetary system yet. |
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New World of Iron Rain
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| Topic: New Planets |
01/08/03 |
| Discover the remarkable new planet that has a year that lasts a terrestrial day, and rains down not water, but iron. The discovery is made possible by a planetary detection method--called a transit search--where the parent star dims as the orbitting planets pass across its face. |
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Water Worlds
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| Topic: New Planets |
01/02/03 |
Italian astronomers report on a method for water detection on extrasolar planets and cometary clouds, and their shortlist of candidates with promising initial findings from the 32-meter Medicina radio telescope.
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Gravity's Telescope
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| Topic: New Planets |
12/26/02 |
| Using a technique known as "gravitational microlensing", astronomers hope to find planets in Earth-like orbits around stars halfway across the galaxy. |
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Weighing In on Other Planets
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| Topic: New Planets |
12/06/02 |
| An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. |
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The Sun Also Rises Twice
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/10/02 |
| The startling effect of twin shadows and dual sunrises would make for double-vision on the first planet found orbiting a closely-coupled binary star system. |
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Amateur Astronomers Hunt Planet
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/06/02 |
| Enlisting help for sighting a star as it dims when a planetary candidate passes across the star's face. |
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Water Worlds
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/30/02 |
| Italian astronomers report on a method for water detection on extrasolar planets and cometary clouds, and their shortlist of candidates with promising initial findings from the 32-meter Medicina radio telescope. |
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Shortlisting Stars With Planetary Systems
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/23/02 |
| Markus Landgraf and European Space Agency colleagues explore the first direct evidence of dust rings in our solar system, and propose a novel way to shortlist stars with likely extrasolar planets. |
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