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- Stars occasionally capture wandering planets
- Discovery of two planetary babies
- New study suggests the Solarsystem is the norm
- A star with 9 exoplanets
- Discovery of 2 very old exoplanets
- Millions of Earthlike planets in th eMilkyway
- Premature planetary-formation
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- Kepler releases new catalog-2321 planet candidates
- Water in the atmosphere of a super-Earth
- New 3D model for planetary accretion
- Red dwarf stars may be more habitable than imagined
- Our galaxy may swarm with free--floating planets
- Hubble reveals a new class of exoplanet
- Discovery of potential habitable exoplanet
- 11 new solarsystems hosting 26 planets discovered
- First SETI observations of Kepler candidates
- Discovery of smallest known exoplanets
- New class of planetary system
- Searching for habitable exo-moons
- Discovery of 2 Earth-size planets raises questions about stellar evolution
- Kepler discovers first truly Earth-sized planets
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Exoplanets found by measuring their rotation
Sunday, 14 August 2011 08:43
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Astronomers has found 4 new exoplanets by measuring their rotation with ESOs Harps spectrgraph. When the planet passes in front of their mother-stars, dopplershiftet absorption-lines from their atmosphere creates "noise" in the stars spectrum, giving clue to their presence Source: arXiv.org |
