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A Dying Kick for Stars Like Our Sun?
8 Jan, 2008 11:20 am
The explosive deaths of massive stars can catapult stellar remnants through space with a violent kick. But astronomers thought less massive stars, such...
Just Plain Weird: An Odd Star Proves to Be a New Type of Object
5 Dec, 2007 10:35 am
On the night after Thanksgiving two years ago, I was at the Keck Telescope, trying to identify some very blue objects in the sky. I was looking for white...
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Ad Astra! News and Discoveries from the the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn
29 Oct, 2007 01:01 pm
The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched on 15 October 1997; 10 years later, we speak to Professor Andrew Coates, head of Planetary Science Group in the... Late Stages of Planetary System Evolution: the Case of V 391 Peg b
12 Oct, 2007 11:15 am
Exoplanets are of high interest, not only because questions regarding alien life in the universe have accompanied humanity for a long time, but also because... Video : Emission Spectra of Extrasolar Planets
16 Apr, 2007 02:22 pm
We recently published an article by Jeremy Richardson describing "the first measured emission spectrum from two different planets orbiting other stars"... Another "First": Emission Spectra of Extrasolar Planets
22 Mar, 2007 11:21 am
The rapidly-evolving field of research in extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) has achieved another milestone, with the announcement of the first measured... Night and Day on an Alien World: Spitzer's Hidden Universe
18 Nov, 2006 03:18 pm
Astronomers have for the first time measured the temperatures varying across the surface of a planet beyond our solar system. ... “This Kind of Planet Had Never Been Seen Before”
19 Oct, 2006 04:15 pm
Kailash Sahu is the leading author of a report published Nature in which he describes the finding of 16 new extrasolar planets in the center of the Milky... “It’s just the excitement of the quest to not only find a planet that would be truly attractive and habitable, but one that has life”
26 Jul, 2006 04:07 pm
Webster Cash recently reported a new method to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a space Telescope associated with a special shape occulter... “In the coming years we might be able to detect smaller planets and maybe approach what could be a telluric planet in the habitable zone”
8 Jun, 2006 08:39 pm
Christophe Lovis is co-author of an report published in Nature describing the discovery of three new extra-solar planets orbiting a star nearby [1]. He... |
