NASA To Announce New Planetary Discoveries by Kepler “NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 2, to announce the Kepler mission’s latest findings about planets […]
Extrasolar planet
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Anyone Can Now Search for Extrasolar Planets
Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets, Yale University “Planet Hunters, which is the latest in the Zooniverse citizen science project collection, will ask users to help analyze data taken […]
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Directly Imaged Extrasolar Planet Confirmed
First Directly Imaged Planet Confirmed Around Sun-like Star, Gemini Observatory “A planet only about eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed orbiting a Sun-like star at over 300 […]
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Planetary Stewardship
Pave New Worlds, Are We Alone podcast, SETI Institute “The extra-solar planet count is more than 400 and rising. Before long we may find an Earth-like planet around another star. […]
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Waterworld Found
Waterworld Discovered Transiting a Nearby Star, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics “Astronomers have announced that they have discovered a “super-Earth” orbiting a red dwarf star only 40 light-years from Earth. They […]
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An Interesting Extrasolar Planet Announcement Next Week
ESO: Media Telecon to Discuss Significant Exoplanet Finding “On Monday 19 October 2009, astronomers will report at the international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, Portugal, on a significant discovery in […]