'Bulge' yields new planet class
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Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets that take less than a day to whiz round their parent stars.
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WASHINGTON - A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery.
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Two old stars appear to be generating planets long after the normal period, astronomers say.
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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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Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems.
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Astronomers discover a newborn planet in a solar system that is still in the process of forming.
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The universe looked a little more familiar and friendlier. The roll call of planets beyond the solar system swelled significantly with the announcement of a trio of newly-discovered worlds much smaller than any previously discovered around other stars.
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New observations of dust around young stars suggests collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent.
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Gas giants that orbit close to their stars likely migrated inward, shaking up debris that could coalesce into Earthlike worlds, new computer models predict.
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets. A NASA telescope recently discovered
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A new planet was discovered orbiting a sun-like star 41 light years away, making it the first known planetary quintet outside our solar system, astronomers said Tuesday.
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Two Neptune-sized planets have been discovered circling stars beyond our Solar System, US astronomers reported on Tuesday. The discoveries, which come less than a week after a similar announcement by European
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New images of the planet Uranus reveal more diversity in cloud features than ever seen before.
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Hot, steamy star Somewhere in the universe, a solar system is forming. Whirling around the newly ignited stellar embryo is a disk of dust, gas, and rocks that will gradually settle down into a stable planetary system. And according to astronomers using the Spitzer space telescope, the natal cloud - the region where planets will form - is being deluged with water vapour.â¦
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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The first direct image of a planet circling another star may have been obtained by a US-European team of astronomers.
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By Michael Stroh< The Baltimore Sun  Call it a mugging in the Milky Way.   In a stunning reversal, astronomers who were ready to expand the solar system's number of planets by three just last week voted to shrink it Thursday instead, stripping Pluto of its status as a planet.