Astronomers ID hottest ever extra solar planets
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Pack high factor sun cream Scottish astronomers working on a new wide-field survey of the sky have identified two new extra-solar planets in the constellations of Andromeda and Delphinius. The planets have been dubbed Wasp-1a and Wasp-1b.â¦
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Two new discoveries suggest that sunlike solar systems like ours â with life-hosting planets â are more common than previously thought.
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In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers report.
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WASHINGTON - Astronomers have used a network of small telescopes to discover a planet circling a far-off star. &quot;This discovery demonstrates that even humble telescopes can make huge contributions to planet
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The whitest place on Earth could be the coolest place on the planet for astronomy.
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Astronomers have discovered four new planets in a week's time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds.
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To celebrate the hardware completion of the next orbiter to Venus, the European team of scientists hope toasting to a toasty planet will broaden astrobiology's view of our neighbor. Because on the surface, Venus is hot enough to melt lead...
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Scientists in Britain say they are making remarkable advances in the search for life in other solar systems, though results are more than a decade off.
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A discovery now has some astronomers entertaining visions of icy volcanoes roiling on some of the tiny worlds circling beyond Neptune, at least at one time.
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New images of the planet Uranus reveal more diversity in cloud features than ever seen before.
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A trio of supergiants -- red, cool, bright stars at the end of their lives -- may be the biggest stars ever identified, astronomers reported on Monday.
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Researchers have discovered two planets in a solar system 5,000 light-years away that appears to be structured in some important ways like our own.
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Astronomers have found the latest planet in another solar system â-r &quot;exoplanet&quot; â -ng telescopes no bigger than those you might find at a garage sale.
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Astronomers say they have discovered the largest planet ever found, a supersize gas giant about 1.4 times the size of Jupiter that's unlike any other known world.
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One of the great mysteries for astronomers is why our Sun's surface is so much hotter than its core. The counterintuitive answer, according to a suite of solar observatories, hinges on the Sun's tangled magnetic field and deep, fiery waves...
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Astronomers have discovered a planet that seems to have survived the puffing up of its home star, suggesting that Earth could survive the swelling of the Sun.
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In what could be a breakthrough in the search for worlds, an international team of astronomers claims to have made an image of a planetlike object beyond our solar system.