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A Planet is Born
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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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Birth of a Planet, Birth of a System
By 2013.01.03 0 Comments Read More →

Birth of a Planet, Birth of a System

Innerspace.net is primarily focused on developments in the international launch industry and the quest for progressively more affordable space transportation. It also attempts to keep in focus some of the reasons achieving that goal benefits science and society as a whole;  to better understand the astonishing wonders in our own solar system, and those far beyond, even if we have […]

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