Home / Posts tagged 'exoplanets'
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Lifting the veil from a star’s alien worlds
The composition of exoplanets can be studied via their spectra – those rainbows of information...
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Comets galore orbit alien stars
A comet blazing in the night sky can be a spectacular sight, with its bright gaseous tail liberated from...
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Five new planets orbit a nearby star
If it is clear tonight when it gets dark, and you’re in northern latitudes, then go outside and...
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Aliens could inhabit world with two suns
A newly discovered solar system is intriguing astronomers because it has two suns – and one of...
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Planet-hunters find new worlds in old data
Two scientists have ‘shone a light’ in the foggy spectra of an exoplanetary star system,...
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Earth-like planets eaten by parent stars
It is day two of Cosmic Crimewatch and yet another example of senseless violence has been discovered...
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Billions of Earth-like worlds in Milky Way
Our Milky Way galaxy is swarming with tens of billions of habitable rocky planets not much bigger than...
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Planets sent flying like cosmic bullets
Orphan planets are being flung through the galaxy at velocities that are a fraction of the speed of light,...
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How you can help discover a planet
More than 700 planets have been discovered to date, but astronomers are seeking help from the public...
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NASA’s Kepler reaps new planet harvest
A NASA space telescope’s harvesting of new planets is continuing apace with 26 new worlds confirmed...
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Galaxy is swarming with alien planets
A cosmic census by international astronomers has discovered that the Milky Way galaxy must be packed...
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Now let’s discover those alien moons!
With well over 700 planets now discovered around other stars, astronomers are looking to a fresh challenge...
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