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A Guide to ExoPlanet Hunting
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| Topic: New Planets |
11/14/12 |
| Summary: Astronomers have written 'directions' for how to search for exoplanets. The team identified 144 target stars for exoplanet searches, with 20 very strong candidates. |
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Gap In Star's Dust Disk May Indicate Multiple Planets
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| Topic: New Planets |
11/11/12 |
| Summary: Observations of a young star with a mass similar to that of the Sun show a giant gap inside its protoplanetary disk. The gravitational force of newborn planets may account for the huge gap. |
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A Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone of a Six-Planet System
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| Topic: New Planets |
11/07/12 |
| Summary: Researchers have discovered a new super-Earth planet that orbits in the habitable zone of a nearby star. In all, the study revealed three new super-Earth planet candidates orbiting the star HD 40307. |
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SuperEarth Found Nearby
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/19/12 |
| Summary: Astronomers have discovered a planet with about the same mass as the Earth. The planet orbits a star in our closest neighboring system - Alpha Centauri. |
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Planet Found in Four-Star System
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/16/12 |
| Summary: In a joint effort, citizen scientists and astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting twin suns that in turn is orbited by a second distant pair of stars. |
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Nearby SuperEarth Likely a Diamond Planet
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/12/12 |
| Summary: New research suggests that a rocky planet twice the size of Earth and orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. It may be the first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry than our own planet. |
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Hot but Habitable?
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/04/12 |
| Summary: A new Super-Earth planet has been found in the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163. The planet receives more light from its parent star than Earth from the Sun, but it still might be habitable for life as we know it. |
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Evaporating Planet Has a Comet Tail
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| Topic: New Planets |
08/29/12 |
| Summary: Astronomers have found clear evidence that the exoplanet known as KIC 12557548 is slowly falling apart. The planet has a massive dust tail, similar to a comet's tail, and is the only known exoplanet of its kind. |
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