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Exoplanet First for Chandra Telescope

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
July 29, 2013
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NASA X-ray Telescope Observes Planet Passing in Front of its Star for the First Time, NASA
For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.
An advantageous alignment of a planet and its parent star in the system HD 189733, which is 63 light-years from Earth, enabled NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM Newton Observatory to observe a dip in X-ray intensity as the planet transited the star.

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