Tag Archives: Discoveries of extrasolar planets

NASA finds Nearest Super Earth

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NASA made a huge splash last week with the discovery of Kepler-452B. The exoplanet is the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is like to our sun.Using NASA's...

Did NASA Find a New Earth?

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Update: NASA found Super Earth Kepler-452b.Has NASA found another earth? An announcement for a media event on Thursday contains hints to believe that.NASA will announce new discoveries of the Kepler...

Jupiter Twin Discovered Orbiting Sun Like Star in Solar Twin

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A bunch of astronomers have employed a special telescope to take images of a planet that resembles our own Jupiter. And the odd thing is that the star it is revolving around in an elliptical fashion...

Detecting Water Vapor On A ‘Hot Jupiter’ Around Tau Bootis

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For the first time, a team of American astronomers has used near-infrared spectroscopy to directly detect water vapor in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet in close orbit around the bright star tau...