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342 results for: exoplanet
- Space
Kepler craft reports apparent planetary bonanza
New results from an orbiting telescope promise to more than double the number of known extrasolar planets.
- Space
Twinkle, twinkle, little dot
A faint object was once thought to be the first extrasolar planet to be photographed. Then it wasn’t. But now it may go down in the history books after all.
- Space
Still no Earths, but getting closer
Two newly discovered planetary systems shed light on the likelihood of producing terrestrial planets.
- Space
Smallest planet found orbiting distant star
NASA’s Kepler space telescope snags an exoplanet tinier than Mercury.
- Space
No vacancy around stars
The Milky Way’s planets pack tightly around their stars, according to simulations using data from the Kepler space telescope.
- Planetary Science
Distant planets’ atmospheres revealed
Telescopes get first direct glimpse of gases on exoplanets.
- Astronomy
Most Earthlike planets yet seen bring Kepler closer to its holy grail
Space telescope finds globes that, compared with our world, are slightly larger and orbit a smaller star.
- Space
NASA pulls out of astrophysics missions
Europe is now on its own for two planned spacecraft to study black holes and gravitational waves.
- Space
Snapshots from a world off-kilter
Astronomers at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Miami presented images of exoplanets in high-angle orbits.
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Letters
Impossible view In “Milky Way puts on weight” (SN: 1/31/09, p. 8), you claim to show an image of the Milky Way. This image cannot be real. Worse, it creates misconceptions: As a college educator, I find that most students actually believe NASA has launched probes outside of the Milky Way to take pictures of […]
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Science Future for January 29, 2011
February 11 – 13 Explore geology at the 60th Annual Agate and Mineral Show at Portland, Oregon’s science museum. See www.omsi.edu February 13 Boston’s Museum of Science officially reopens its planetarium with a show about exoplanets. Go to www.mos.org February 14 Savor a “miracle fruit” berry that deceives taste buds, in a butterfly rain forest […]
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Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
A look at exoplanet hunting based on one astronomer’s life and work. Aimed at young adults. PLANET HUNTER Boyds Mills Press, 2010, 48 p., $17.95.
