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A Sky Full of Planets
Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)
Think back to the last time you saw the Milky Way-that faint stripe of stars that thickens and brightens as you get farther from city lights. At least 200 billi...
Astronomers report startling find on planet formation
Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)
Astronomers are reporting a find that challenges traditional theories as to how rocky planets -- such as Earth -- are formed. Besides Earth, our solar system ha...
Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts?
Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)
Using ESA's Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered vast belts of comets surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host nothing larger t...
Low-mass planets make good neighbours for debris discs
Nov 29, 2012 (ESA)
Astronomers using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory have detected massive debris discs around 61 Virginis and Gliese 581, two nearby stars that are known to host...
Dust Grains Highlight the Path to Planet Formation
Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the Japanese universities of Kobe, Hyogo, and Saitama used t...
Magnesium oxide: From Earth to super-Earth
Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)
The mantles of Earth and other rocky planets are rich in magnesium and oxygen. Due to its simplicity, the mineral magnesium oxide is a good model for studying t...
NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins Extension
Nov 20, 2012 (JPL)
NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope's three-and-a-half-year prime missi...
Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter'
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have discovered a "super-Jupiter" around the bright star Kappa Andromedae, which now holds t...
Rare image of Super-Jupiter sheds light on planet formation
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
An infrared imaging search with the Subaru telescope has captured a rare image of a "Super-Jupiter" around the massive star Kappa Andromedae (K And). The gas gi...
Lowell astronomer, collaborators point the way for exoplanet search
Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)
Though the search for planets around other stars, or exoplanets, is showing researchers that planets are abundant in our galaxy, it helps a great deal to have d...
A Reborn Planetary Nebula
Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)
These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, (a.k.a. A30), show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. The...
Lowell Astronomer, Collaborators Point The Way For Exoplanet Search
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
Though the search for planets around other stars, or exoplanets, is showing researchers that planets are abundant in our galaxy, it helps a great deal to have d...
Lost in Space: Rogue Planet Spotted?
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have identified a body that is very probably a planet wandering through spac...
Lonely planet: Orphan world spotted in deep space
Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)
Astronomers on Wednesday reported they had detected a planet that had strayed from its star system and was wandering alone in deep space. Object CFBDSIR2149 is ...
Nearby six-planet system could be life friendly
Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)
A new super-Earth planet that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life has been discovered around a nearby star by an international team...
Discovery of a Giant Gap in the Disk of a Sun-like Star May Indicate Multiple Planets
Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)
A large international team of astronomers led by Jun Hashimoto (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) and Ruobing Dong (Princeton University) has used the...
New habitable zone super-Earth found in exosolar system
Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone, where liquid water and a stable atmosphere could reside, around the nearby star HD 40307. I...
Cosmic sprinklers explained in active planetary nebula
Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the centre of one of the most remarkable examples of a plane...
Physicists confirm first planet discovered in a quadruple star system
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
Justin Crepp, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, provided the high-contrast imaging observations that confirmed the first extrasola...
Planet-hunt data released to public
Oct 30, 2012 (UPI)
A year's worth of planet-hunting data gathered by NASA's Kepler space telescope has been made available to scientists and the public, researchers said. The Spac...
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