Astronomers Find Planetary System

Investigators report the first evidence that a star similar to the sun has a system of planets circling it.

References:

1999. First system of multiple planets found around a sun-like star. San Francisco State University Press Release (April 15).

Further Readings:

Cowen, R. 1996. New array of planet finds. Science News 150(July 6):11.

Sources:

Alan P. Boss
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
5243 Broad Branch Road, NW
Washington, DC 20015-1305

R. Paul Butler
Anglo-Australian Observatory
P.O. Box 296
Epping, NSW 1710
Australia

Peter Nisenson
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA 02138

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 16, April 17, 1999, p. 244. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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