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A Newly Discovered Planet in a Binary System Points Towards Other Earths
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A Newly Discovered Planet in a Binary System Points Towards Other Earths

  Image credit: Cheongho Han, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea A planetary discovery by four international teams of astronomers and led by Andrew Gould of the Ohio State University is leading to yet another re-examination of the number of stars which could potentially host Earth-like planets, and the number just keeps going up. For […]

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A Planet is Born
By 2013.03.05 1 Comments Read More →

A Planet is Born

For the first time ever, astronomers may have captured a direct image of a planet being born. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope  in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope,  an international team based in Switzerland found what appears to be the birth of gas giant planet around the star HD 100546, 335 light years away from Earth. The […]

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