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Detecting Exoplanets with a Big Balloon
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| Topic: New Planets |
06/03/12 |
| Scientists are developing a small, segmented mirror that could revolutionize space-based telescopes. the technology could also be applied to a balloon-borne instrument that would search for extrasolar planets from just 135,000 feet above the Earth. |
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Newly Found Planet May Turn Into Dust
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| Topic: New Planets |
05/21/12 |
| Researchers have detected a possible planet that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The exoplanet is thought to be not much larger than Mercury. |
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JPL Wants To FINESSE Info From Exoplanets
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| Topic: New Planets |
05/20/12 |
| A new mission proposed as part of NASA's Explorers program could help gather data that would greatly aid in the search for habitable, extrasolar worlds. FINESSE would be the first mission dedicated to studying atmospheres on worlds around distant stars. |
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Unseen Planet Revealed by its Gravity
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| Topic: New Planets |
05/11/12 |
| By identifying small deviations in the motion of a transiting exoplanet, researchers have identified a unseen companion planet around the Sun-like star, KOI-872. It is the first time this technique has been successfully used in the search for worlds outside our solar system. |
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Seeing the Light of a SuperEarth
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| Topic: New Planets |
05/10/12 |
| For the first time, astronomers have detected light emanating from a 'super-Earth' orbiting a distant star. The planet is not habitable, but the detection is a step toward the eventual search for signs of life on exoplanets. |
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Lonely Jupiters
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| Topic: New Planets |
05/09/12 |
| New research shows that 'hot Jupiter-type' planets may be alone in the systems that support them. The study indicates that giant planets would wreak havoc on any other planets forming in the inner regions of a solar system. |
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ALMA Reveals Nearby Planetary System
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| Topic: New Planets |
04/15/12 |
| A new observatory, which is still under construction, has already provided a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system. |
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Nearby Star May Have 9 Planets
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| Topic: New Planets |
04/10/12 |
| A new analysis shows that the star HD 10180 may be at the center of a solar system with nine planets. HD 10180 is similar to the Sun in mass, temperature, brightness, and chemical content. |
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Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet
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| Topic: New Planets |
04/06/12 |
| Kepler has revealed an astounding variety of planets around distant stars. How long will it be before we identify a 'Goldilocks planet' - a truly Earth-like world orbiting its star at the right distance for liquid water and life. |
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