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20 Mar 2008 at 2:00am
New survey may produce bonanza of new worlds.
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12 Mar 2008 at 2:00am
Take a virtual tour of Enceladus.
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6 Mar 2008 at 1:00am
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6-foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular" light.
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4 Mar 2008 at 1:00am
The Big Picture Six missions designed to hunt for planets orbiting other stars (exoplanets) are among a list of ideas that teams selected by NASA will study for the next generation of astronomy and astrophysics missions.
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21 Feb 2008 at 8:00pm
NASA's first mission specifically designed to look for Earth-size planets orbiting other stars is on track for a launch in February 2009, said Kepler Deputy Project Manager Jim Fanson.
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15 Jan 2008 at 3:00am
Astronomers have rung in the new year with several new exoplanet discoveries and observations. These latest announcements build upon the breakneck pace of last year, when 62 new planets were found, bringing the total planet count to 271.
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17 Dec 2007 at 3:00am
You could say that science runs in Rachel Akeson's family. The daughter of two scientists, she knew she was going to be an astronomer by the time she was a third-grader. Now, in addition to having her hands full with her own young children, Akeson is studying young stars as they develop their own planetary families.
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28 Nov 2007 at 3:00am
Although more than 250 planets are known to orbit other stars, so far no one has been able to get a good look at any of them. That's largely because a star's glare is millions of times brighter than a planet, so trying to see a planet next to a star is akin to trying to spot a firefly next to a spotlight, from thousands of miles away. But it's a problem Oppenheimer and his colleagues at the American Museum of Natural History in New York hope to solve with a new instrument called the Lyot Project.
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4 Nov 2007 at 5:37pm
A team of planet-hunters based in the United Kingdom has announced the discovery of three new exoplanets. The astronomers, who are part of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) project, observed the distant planets as they orbited in front of their host stars, a phenomenon known as transiting.
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11 Sep 2007 at 6:37pm
An international team of astronomers has discovered the first planet orbiting a nearly dead star - offering us a glimpse into the Earth's future.
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