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A Planet for Every Star (And Then Some)
By 2013.01.07 0 Comments Read More →

A Planet for Every Star (And Then Some)

Source: JPL News Release Astronomers are rapidly closing in on the rather intriguing conclusion that there is on average at least one planet for every star in the Milky Way Galaxy  and probably a lot more than that.  The numbers are straighforward, but staggering. Approximately 100 billion stars give or take, yields a planetary count in the hundreds […]

Posted in: Exo Planets, Space Science
Crowdsourcing Science: Citizen Astronomers Discover Rare Planetary System
By 2012.10.20 1 Comments Read More →

Crowdsourcing Science: Citizen Astronomers Discover Rare Planetary System

Amateur  astronomers with Planethunters.org  and Yale University have announced the discovery of an unusual solar system in deep space. The system contains a gas giant, dubbed PH1,  approximately the size of Neptune circling a binary star.  What makes it unusual is that orbiting much further out, roughly 1000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, is yet another binary star system. The  […]

Posted in: Crowdsourcing Space Exploration, Space Science
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