Tag Archives: Extrasolar planet

Gemini Planet Imager Discovers Young Jupiter Planet 51 Eridani b

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Astronomers have been peering out into the far depths of outer space since eons. And they have found stuff that amazes the mind of man by its sheer novelty. A recent find is the 51 Eridani b which...

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...

Aurora Spotted on Brown Dwarf Outside Solar System

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Astronomers discovered the first aurora ever seen outside our Solar System. The aurora is like the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth.It is 10,000 times more powerful than any before seen. The...

NASA Unveils New Exoplanet Kepler-452b

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Has NASA found another earth? This question hounds space fans since early this week when NASA announced a media event to talk about new Kepler Space Telescope discoveries.The telescope's mission is...

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...

74 Earth-Sized Planets Have Earth-Like Circular Orbits

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The solar system, with its series of planets circling in elliptical orbits around the sun, appears to be an archer’s target when seen in model form. The earth maintains its distance from the sun in...

Kepler-186f is the first earth-size planet discovered by NASA

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This week, NASA announced the discovery of an earth-like planet about 500 light-years away from Earth. NASA calls it the Kepler-186f, which is situated in the Kepler-186 system, a dwarf star in the...

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...

Astronomers Find A Planet That Wobbles Like A Top

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Newly discovered planet Kepler-413b is about 2,300 light years from Earth. It circles its two suns – an orange and red dwarf – every 66 days. It’s a gas giant that’s larger than the planet Neptune It...