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Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly
For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves to the other side of its host star. Credit: ESO/A.-M. Lagrange For the first time, astronomers...
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First Amateur Image of Another Solar System
Amateur astronomer Rolf Wahl Olsen from New Zealand shared an image with Universe Today, and it is perhaps the first image of another solar system taken by an amateur. The image above is Olsen’s image...
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Baby Free-Floating Planet Found Alone, Away From A Star
Artist’s conception of PSO J318.5-22. Credit: MPIA/V. Ch. Quetz The planetary world keeps getting stranger. Scientists have found free-floating planets — drifting alone, away from stars — before. But...
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Super-sensitive Camera Captures a Direct Image of an Exoplanet
The Gemini Planet Imager’s first light image of Beta Pictoris b (Processing by Christian Marois, NRC Canada) The world’s newest and most powerful exoplanet imaging instrument, the recently-installed...
View ArticleGiant Planet May Be Lurking In ‘Poisonous’ Gas Around Beta Pictoris
A Saturn-mass planet might be lurking in the debris surrounding Beta Pictoris, new measurements of a debris field around the star shown. If this could be proven, this would be the second planet found...
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Two Comet Groups Discovered Around Beta Pictoris
This artist’s impression shows exocomets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. Credit:ESO/L. Cacada Between the years 2003 and 2011, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher – better known as HARPS...
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