Astronomers Confident: Planet Beyond Solar System Has Been Photographed
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- Astronomers are highly confident that they've taken the first photograph of a planet outside our solar system.
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Is this newly discovered feeble point of light the long-sought bona-fide image of an exoplanet? A research paper by an international team of astronomers provides sound arguments in favor, but the definitive answer is now awaiting further observations.
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Astronomers have found what they say is the best evidence yet for water, or at least steam, in the atmosphere of a planet around another star.
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Planet-building is dusty work, and now two space telescopes have captured images of cosmic construction materials: disks of dust circling stars about the same size as our sun.
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People have long gazed at the sky and wondered if there were other worlds&#x2014;Earths&#x2014;in orbit around the distant stars.  Since the 1992 announcement of pulsar planets by Alex Wolszczan, more than 130 giant (Jupiter and Saturn size) planets in orbit about nearby stars have been discovered using ground-based telescopes. In 2007, NASA's Kepler Mission will begin the space-based search for extrasolar planets. Over its planned observing lifetime, Kepler is likely to discover many hundreds of extrasolar planets both large and small. ...
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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 recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery, scientists said.
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the object is small enough to be a planet.
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Astronomers announce recent discoveries of two Earth-like planets.
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What might be the first directly visible planet orbiting a starlike body other than our sun was reported by scientists from Europe and Los Angeles on Friday.
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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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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft successfully photographed one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system on Tuesday in a flyby that brought it within 745 miles of Saturn&#39;s hazy moon Titan.
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British researchers detect water in atmosphere of planet that circles star far beyond our solar system.
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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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Astronomers in Europe and the United States have found two new planets about 20 times the size of Earth beyond the solar system. The discovery might be a giant leap forward in